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All the ideas for 'Material Constitution', 'The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars' and 'Natural Science (lost)'

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20 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

8525	Relations need terms, so they must be second-order entities based on first-order tropes [Campbell,K]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8518	Events are trope-sequences, in which tropes replace one another [Campbell,K]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8513	Two red cloths are separate instances of redness, because you can dye one of them blue [Campbell,K]

8514	Red could only recur in a variety of objects if it was many, which makes them particulars [Campbell,K]

8522	Tropes solve the Companionship Difficulty, since the resemblance is only between abstract particulars [Campbell,K]

8523	Tropes solve the Imperfect Community problem, as they can only resemble in one respect [Campbell,K]

8524	Trope theory makes space central to reality, as tropes must have a shape and size [Campbell,K]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

8521	Nominalism has the problem that without humans nothing would resemble anything else [Campbell,K]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

8515	Tropes are basic particulars, so concrete particulars are collections of co-located tropes [Campbell,K]

8519	Bundles must be unique, so the Identity of Indiscernibles is a necessity - which it isn't! [Campbell,K]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

16065

Constitution is identity (being in the same place), or it isn't (having different possibilities) [Wasserman]

16067

Constitution is not identity, because it is an asymmetric dependence relation [Wasserman]

16069

There are three main objections to seeing constitution as different from identity [Wasserman]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

16068

The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting [Wasserman]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Relative identity may reject transitivity, but that suggests that it isn't about 'identity' [Wasserman]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

4033	Two pure spheres in non-absolute space are identical but indiscernible [Campbell,K]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring

8512	Abstractions come before the mind by concentrating on a part of what is presented [Campbell,K]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

8517	Causal conditions are particular abstract instances of properties, which makes them tropes [Campbell,K]

8516	Davidson can't explain causation entirely by events, because conditions are also involved [Campbell,K]