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All the ideas for 'Vagaries of Definition', 'Oxford University Statutes' and 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8074	There is a five shilling fine for each point of divergence from the thinking of Aristotle [Oxford Univ 1350]

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

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Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8203	All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

8202	Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

8201	The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine]