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'Parmenides', 'The Ethics' and 'On the Plurality of Worlds'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Outside the mind, there are just things and their properties [Spinoza]
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The more reality a thing has, the more attributes it has [Spinoza]
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There are only two kinds: sets, and possibilia (actual and possible particulars) [Lewis, by Oliver]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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There must always be a reason or cause why some triangle does or does not exist [Spinoza]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Men say they prefer order, not realising that we imagine the order [Spinoza]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism
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Laws of nature are universal, so everything must be understood through those laws [Spinoza]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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Abstractions may well be verbal fictions, in which we ignore some features of an object [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Vagueness is semantic indecision: we haven't settled quite what our words are meant to express [Lewis]
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Whether or not France is hexagonal depends on your standards of precision [Lewis]
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