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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'A world of truthmakers?' and 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers'

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

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

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

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Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]