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Armstrong II 102
General fact/Russell/Armstrong: a certain large accumulation of facts which is the totality of the facts of the first level.
Lewis: if this collection of less than all possible states (facts) is 1st level, then this state of higher level automatically excludes countless states from existence.
Armstrong: The situation with nomic connections seems the same.
Armstrong II 131
General fact/Russell/Martin: this could be a uniformity or regularity, but also different or disjunctive relations. - i.e. a "mixed world": "uniform and/or non-uniform".
The disjunction itself could be general and not space-time-specific.
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B. Russell, ABC of Relativity Theory 144/145
Facts/Russell: can never be inferred from laws, only from other facts.
>((s) explanation: Naturals laws do not evoke anything.)
>Natural laws/Ryle.
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R V 38ff
Fact/Russell/Stegmüller: it is inadmissible to regard attributes and relations together with individuals as components of facts - (violates type theory, different levels).
>Type theory.

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