Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'Armstrong on combinatorial possibility'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

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Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths

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Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 9. Making Past Truths

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Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs

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How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

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

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

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]