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All the ideas for 'Ordinatio', 'A world of truthmakers?' and 'Problems in the Explanation of Action'

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4 ideas

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]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

9103	A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9104	A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

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We can keep Davidson's account of intentions in action, by further explaining prior intentions [Davidson, by Stout,R]