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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Problem of Possibilia' and 'Tropes'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8526	We might treat both tropes and substances as fundamental, so we can't presume it is just tropes [Daly]

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

8527	More than one trope (even identical ones!) can occupy the same location [Daly]

8528	If tropes are linked by the existence of concurrence, a special relation is needed to link them all [Daly]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

6019	If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

9212	Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K]

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

9213	The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K]