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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Preface to 'Dorian Gray'' and 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism
The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
All art is quite useless [Wilde]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde]
Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde]