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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Disquisitions' and 'The Rationalists'

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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 / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

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

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]