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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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8 ideas

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

15547

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

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

16062

A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

16061

If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

16060

Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

16064

The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

15542

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]