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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' and 'Platonistic Theories of Universals'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

8964	Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz]

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]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

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Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals

8962	'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

8961	Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz]

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

8963	Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz]