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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Letters to Foucher'

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5 ideas

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

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The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest]

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

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Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]