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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]
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If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]
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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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The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference [Bennett,K]
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Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way [Bennett,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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Weak supervenience is in one world, strong supervenience in all possible worlds [Bennett,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Aesthetics, morality and mind supervene on the physical? Modal on non-modal? General on particular? [Bennett,K]
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Some entailments do not involve supervenience, as when brotherhood entails siblinghood [Bennett,K]
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Reduction requires supervenience, but does supervenience suffice for reduction? [Bennett,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]
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Definitions of physicalism are compatible with a necessary God [Bennett,K]
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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 / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
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