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All the ideas for 'Tropes', 'Nominalism and Realism' and 'Philosophical Essay on Probability'

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

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Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]

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A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]

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Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

4032	The problem of universals is how many particulars can all be of the same 'type' [Armstrong]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]