Lexicon of Arguments

 

III 144 f
Negative Facts/Negative States/Armstrong: negative facts are harmless: if something has a certain speed, then it has no other speed at the same time. - (But already implied: -> derived laws - III 147) b
Solution: better assume negative properties than negative laws: otherwise laws are not instantiated ((s) >Instantiation).
Negative facts: have a negative properties - But only as caused, not causal (-> derived laws.)
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II (d) 149
General Fact(s)/Russell/Armstrong: All quantification needs "general facts" as true makers -(Armstrong pro) - Armstrong: i.e. also a Regth needs general facts - Martin: nothing in the concept of "gen facts" helps to distinguish real laws from mere GF - Armstrong: dito - Gen Facts/Armstrong: do not involve universals either - we have to go behind the general facts, since they do not involve a direct connection of types - II 150 Lewis: if they are approved, they regulate the world by prohibiting certain additional states.
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Martin III 175
"General Fact"/Russell/Martin: no law, mere conjunction, aggregate, etc. But: Unexceptionality: can also be general fact (and still not a law).
Martin III 181
General Fact/Totality: Martin: Problem: Negative facts. - Solution/Martin: the general term "what-and-how-something-exists" is of the first level ((s) not a summary of lower level entities).
"what exists" has subdivisions on the same level. - Subdivisions should have the same level as the whole. - Then there is no need for a "general fact". ((s) Cf. >General facts).