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All the ideas for 'Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson', 'What do powers do when they are not manifested?' and 'Letters to Oldenburg'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Powers are claimed to be basic because fundamental particles lack internal structure [Psillos]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

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No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Identities can be true despite indeterminate reference, if true under all interpretations [Schaffer,J]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]