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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties' and 'Possible Worlds'

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8 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]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

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 / 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]

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

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We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

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Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]