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    Fraser MacBride is a contemporary British analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics. He is known for his rigorous work on the metaphysics of relations, truthmakers, and ontological categories, and has contributed significantly to debates about the foundations of analytic metaphysics.

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    Developed influential critiques of truthmaker theory, including objections to optimalist and necessitarian accounts

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    Authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Relations', a foundational reference in analytic metaphysics

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    Advanced debates on the metaphysics of facts, negative truths, and the nature of ontological commitment

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    Contributed to neo-logicist debates in philosophy of mathematics

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    Edited and contributed to key collections on the methodology of analytic metaphysics

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    The lack of informativeness is not a good objection to the optimalist account of negative truths

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