Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Charles Darwin and Roy Ellen
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen]
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In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen]
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