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Ideas for Eubulides, Alcmaeon and Bertrand Russell

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
14463 Existence can only be asserted of something described, not of something named [Russell]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
11010 Being is what belongs to every possible object of thought [Russell]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
14161 Many things have being (as topics of propositions), but may not have actual existence [Russell]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
14173 What exists has causal relations, but non-existent things may also have them [Russell]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
6402 In 1927, Russell analysed force and matter in terms of events [Russell, by Grayling]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16045 General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
10968 Russell gave up logical atomism because of negative, general and belief propositions [Russell, by Read]
21684 Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts [Russell]
21708 Russell's new logical atomist was of particulars, universals and facts (not platonic propositions) [Russell, by Linsky,B]
19051 Russell's atomic facts are actually compounds, and his true logical atoms are sense data [Russell, by Quine]
6089 Logical atomism aims at logical atoms as the last residue of analysis [Russell]
6100 Once you have enumerated all the atomic facts, there is a further fact that those are all the facts [Russell]
6105 Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality [Russell]
6113 To mean facts we assert them; to mean simples we name them [Russell]
6114 'Simples' are not experienced, but are inferred at the limits of analysis [Russell]
21722 Better to construct from what is known, than to infer what is unknown [Russell]
21681 Given all true atomic propositions, in theory every other truth can thereby be deduced [Russell]
6419 In 1899-1900 I adopted the philosophy of logical atomism [Russell]
6438 Complex things can be known, but not simple things [Russell]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
6472 Continuity is a sufficient criterion for the identity of a rock, but not for part of a smooth fluid [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
21538 If two people perceive the same object, the object of perception can't be in the mind [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
5370 Space is neutral between touch and sight, so it cannot really be either of them [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
7545 Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
14429 Classes are logical fictions, made from defining characteristics [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
21709 You can't name all the facts, so they are not real, but are what propositions assert [Russell]
6111 As propositions can be put in subject-predicate form, we wrongly infer that facts have substance-quality form [Russell]
6434 Facts are everything, except simples; they are either relations or qualities [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
18376 Russell asserts atomic, existential, negative and general facts [Russell, by Armstrong]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths
5418 In a world of mere matter there might be 'facts', but no truths [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts
22315 There can't be a negative of a complex, which is negated by its non-existence [Potter on Russell]
22316 A positive and negative fact have the same constituents; their difference is primitive [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
5465 Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
9051 Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]
9054 Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
6060 'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
18775 Russell showed that descriptions may not have ontological commitment [Russell, by Linsky,B]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
7533 The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals [Russell, by Monk]
14163 Four classes of terms: instants, points, terms at instants only, and terms at instants and points [Russell]