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

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9 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

18351

Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / c. Revolution

22258

Passion for progress is always short-lived [Sandel]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 3. Conservatism

22259

Conservatives are either individualistic, or communal [Sandel]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

22260

Modern liberalism fails to articulate a vision of the common good [Sandel]