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Expansion for Existence

1051 1. Philosophy
623 2. Reason
626 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1242 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1041 7. Existence
A. Nature of Existence
21 1. Nature of Existence
18 2. Types of Existence
28 3. Being a. Nature of Being
4 b. Being and existence
11 c. Becoming
13 d. Non-being
9 e. Being and nothing
15 f. Primary being
16 g. Particular being
18 h. Dasein (being human)
10 i. Deflating being
13 4. Abstract Existence
18 5. Reason for Existence
33 6. Criterion for Existence
B. Change in Existence
29 1. Nature of Change
21 2. Processes
4 3. Moments
17 4. Events a. Nature of events
11 b. Events as primitive
19 c. Reduction of events
C. Structure of Existence
25 1. Grounding a. Nature of grounding
8 b. Relata of grounding
8 c. Grounding and explanation
2 d. Grounding and reduction
25 2. Reduction
6 3. Levels of Reality
17 4. Ontological Dependence
14 5. Supervenience a. Nature of supervenience
9 b. Types of supervenience
23 c. Significance of supervenience
8 d. Humean supervenience
3 6. Fundamentals a. Fundamental reality
2 b. Types of fundamental
24 c. Monads
24 d. Logical atoms
26 7. Abstract/Concrete a. Abstract/concrete
6 b. Levels of abstraction
17 8. Stuff a. Pure stuff
7 b. Mixtures
D. Theories of Reality
15 1. Ontologies
41 2. Realism
25 3. Reality
36 4. Anti-realism
6 5. Naturalism
20 6. Physicalism
12 7. Fictionalism
21 8. Facts a. Facts
12 b. Types of fact
6 c. Facts and truths
6 d. Negative facts
4 e. Facts rejected
8 9. States of Affairs
7 10. Vagueness a. Problem of vagueness
15 b. Vagueness of reality
14 c. Vagueness as ignorance
18 d. Vagueness as linguistic
2 e. Higher-order vagueness
30 f. Supervaluation for vagueness
7 g. Degrees of vagueness
21 11. Ontological Commitment a. Ontological commitment
9 b. Commitment of quantifiers
5 c. Commitment of predicates
11 d. Commitment of theories
17 e. Ontological commitment problems
E. Categories
21 1. Categories
17 2. Categorisation
23 3. Proposed Categories
11 4. Category Realism
19 5. Category Anti-Realism
881 8. Modes of Existence
1528 9. Objects
799 10. Modality
484 11. Knowledge Aims
711 12. Knowledge Sources
633 13. Knowledge Criteria
674 14. Science
546 15. Nature of Minds
492 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
857 18. Thought
835 19. Language
312 20. Action
264 21. Aesthetics
960 22. Metaethics
987 23. Ethics
912 24. Political Theory
750 25. Social Practice
992 26. Natural Theory
713 27. Natural Reality
428 28. God
296 29. Religion