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All the ideas for 'Tropes', 'Killing and Letting Die' and 'On suicide'

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8 ideas

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]

10465

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

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]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

4677	If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume]