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All the ideas for 'Tropes', 'Process Metaphysics' and 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making'

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe]

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 / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

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Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]

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]