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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

15395

Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths

15394

Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

15401

Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron]

15393

An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

15396

Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]