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All the ideas for 'Tropes', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'Notes on John Wilkins'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

15002

If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

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

10467

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

10464

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

10465

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

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

12694

Essence is the distinct thinkability of anything [Leibniz]

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

10466

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