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All the ideas for 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties', 'The Poetics' and 'The Bacchae'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

9283	Our ancient beliefs can never be overthrown by subtle arguments [Euripides]

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 / 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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

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Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]