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All the ideas for 'works', 'Belief Truth and Knowledge' and 'Metaphysics: an introduction'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7081	Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science [Neurath]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant]

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

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A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

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What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant]

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

18864

The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

18865

Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 7. Causal Perception

3900	Maybe experience is not essential to perception, but only to the causing of beliefs [Armstrong, by Scruton]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

4253	Externalism says knowledge involves a natural relation between the belief state and what makes it true [Armstrong]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

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Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant]