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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
16966 Philosophers tend to distinguish broad 'being' from narrower 'existence' - but I reject that [Quine]
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]
16965 All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
22355 In the realist view, the real external world explains how it (and perceptions of it) are possible [Williams,B]
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 / b. Commitment of quantifiers
16963 Existence is implied by the quantifiers, not by the constants [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
16964 Theories are committed to objects of which some of its predicates must be true [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
4216 Express a theory in first-order predicate logic; its ontology is the types of bound variable needed for truth [Quine, by Lowe]
18966 Ontological commitment of theories only arise if they are classically quantified [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
14490 You can be implicitly committed to something without quantifying over it [Thomasson on Quine]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
16961 In formal terms, a category is the range of some style of variables [Quine]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
16652 Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]