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All the ideas for 'The Rationalists', 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties' and 'Sentences'

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9 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

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Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths

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Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

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Logicians acknowledge too few things, while others acknowledge too many [Fitzralph]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

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Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron]

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An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]