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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties' and 'Commentary on the Metaphysics'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

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Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths

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Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

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Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron]

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An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]