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'fragments/reports', 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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The world is facts, not things. Facts determine the world, and the world divides into facts [Wittgenstein]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Nominalists deny abstract objects, because we can have no reason to believe in their existence [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Change can be of composition (the component parts), or quality (properties), or substance [Lowe]
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Four theories of qualitative change are 'a is F now', or 'a is F-at-t', or 'a-at-t is F', or 'a is-at-t F' [Lowe, by PG]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Numerically distinct events of the same kind (like two battles) can coincide in space and time [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Maybe modern physics requires an event-ontology, rather than a thing-ontology [Lowe]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Maybe an event is the exemplification of a property at a time [Lowe]
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Events are changes in the properties of or relations between things [Lowe]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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The 'Tractatus' is an extreme example of 'Logical Atomism' [Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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In atomic facts the objects hang together like chain links [Wittgenstein]
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The structure of an atomic fact is how its objects combine; this possibility is its form [Wittgenstein]
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If a proposition is elementary, no other elementary proposition contradicts it [Wittgenstein]
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Analysis must end in elementary propositions, which are combinations of names [Wittgenstein]
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Nothing can be inferred from an elementary proposition [Wittgenstein]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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Do his existent facts constitute the world, or determine the world? [Morris,M on Wittgenstein]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts
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The world is determined by the facts, and there are no further facts [Wittgenstein]
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The existence of atomic facts is a positive fact, their non-existence a negative fact [Wittgenstein]
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On white paper a black spot is a positive fact and a white spot a negative fact [Wittgenstein]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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The main categories of existence are either universal and particular, or abstract and concrete [Lowe]
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