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'Parmenides', 'There are no ordinary things' and 'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism'
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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 / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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You can't name all the facts, so they are not real, but are what propositions assert [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Russell asserts atomic, existential, negative and general facts [Russell, by Armstrong]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell]
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