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All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Relations' and 'Comment on Armstrong and Forrest'

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6 ideas

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

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It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

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Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation

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'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

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The main rivals to universals are resemblance or natural-class nominalism, or sparse trope theory [Lewis]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 1. Structure of an Object

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We could not uphold a truthmaker for 'Fa' without structures [Lewis]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]