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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Metaphysics: an introduction' and 'Hat-Tricks and Heaps'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

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A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

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What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

9117	The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]

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

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The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

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Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology

651	Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle]