Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Neutral Relations' and 'A world of truthmakers?'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

15549

If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

14219

Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

14217

The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

14216

The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

14218

A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

14220

Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]