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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 / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Modest realism says there is a reality; the presumptuous view says we can accurately describe it [Mumford]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realists deny truth-values to all statements, and say evidence and ontology are inseparable [Mumford]
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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 / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine]
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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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