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All the ideas for 'Tropes', 'works' and 'Mr Strawson on Referring'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition

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Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

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A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]

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Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]

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Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

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Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]