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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Vagueness: a global approach' and 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / a. Problem of vagueness

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Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K]

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Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K]

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Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance

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Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness

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Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K]