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All the ideas for 'Particulars in Particular Clothing', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II' and 'Theological and other works'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
16210 Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
18431 Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
15312 We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
9426 The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
15311 Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley]