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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Spreading the Word' and 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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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

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Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false [Blackburn]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]