Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making' and 'Notes on Logic'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

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Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

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Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]

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]