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'fragments/reports', 'A Survey of Metaphysics' and 'Writing the Book of the World'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Nominalists deny abstract objects, because we can have no reason to believe in their existence [Lowe]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Change can be of composition (the component parts), or quality (properties), or substance [Lowe]
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Four theories of qualitative change are 'a is F now', or 'a is F-at-t', or 'a-at-t is F', or 'a is-at-t F' [Lowe, by PG]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Numerically distinct events of the same kind (like two battles) can coincide in space and time [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Maybe modern physics requires an event-ontology, rather than a thing-ontology [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things [Lowe]
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Maybe an event is the exemplification of a property at a time [Lowe]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience is a modal connection [Sider]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / b. Types of fundamental
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Is fundamentality in whole propositions (and holistic), or in concepts (and atomic)? [Sider]
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Tables and chairs have fundamental existence, but not fundamental natures [Sider]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Unlike things, stuff obeys unrestricted composition and mereological essentialism [Sider]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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We must distinguish 'concrete' from 'abstract' and necessary states of affairs. [Sider]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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Accept the ontology of your best theory - and also that it carves nature at the joints [Sider]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
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The main categories of existence are either universal and particular, or abstract and concrete [Lowe]
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