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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Quantification and Descriptions' and 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
18776 Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts [Linsky,B]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
18351 Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions
18774 Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
18353 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
18352 Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]