Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'The Secret Connexion' and 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

18351

Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

18353

Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

18352

Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

16755

The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8338	A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation [Strawson,G]