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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus' and 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

5992	Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

11092

A river is a process, with stages; if we consider it as one thing, we are considering a process [Quine]

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

11093

We don't say 'red' is abstract, unlike a river, just because it has discontinuous shape [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

21673

There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

11101

General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [Quine]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

16652

Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

11096

Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree [Quine]