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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Elements of Being: I' and 'Wang's Paradox'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

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To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]