Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Engelbretsen,G/Sayward,C, JP Burgess / G Rosen and Adrian Bardon

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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An equally good question would be why there was nothing instead of something [Bardon]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

9918	Abstract/concrete is a distinction of kind, not degree [Burgess/Rosen]

9929	Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden' [Burgess/Rosen]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / b. Levels of abstraction

9927	Mathematics has ascended to higher and higher levels of abstraction [Burgess/Rosen]

9930	Abstraction is on a scale, of sets, to attributes, to type-formulas, to token-formulas [Burgess/Rosen]