Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Armstrong on combinatorial possibility' and 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

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Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths

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Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 9. Making Past Truths

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Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

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Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

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Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs

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How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]