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'fragments/reports', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'A Subject with No Object'
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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A river is a process, with stages; if we consider it as one thing, we are considering a process [Quine]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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We don't say 'red' is abstract, unlike a river, just because it has discontinuous shape [Quine]
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Abstract/concrete is a distinction of kind, not degree [Burgess/Rosen]
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Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden' [Burgess/Rosen]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / b. Levels of abstraction
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Mathematics has ascended to higher and higher levels of abstraction [Burgess/Rosen]
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Abstraction is on a scale, of sets, to attributes, to type-formulas, to token-formulas [Burgess/Rosen]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [Quine]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree [Quine]
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