Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making' and 'When Does a Life Begin?'

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7 ideas

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

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

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]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

4055	It isn't obviously wicked to destroy a potential human being (e.g. an ununited egg and sperm) [Lockwood]

4056	If the soul is held to leave the body at brain-death, it should arrive at the time of brain-creation [Lockwood]

4054	I may exist before I become a person, just as I exist before I become an adult [Lockwood]