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'Parmenides', 'Laws in Nature' and 'Deflating Existential Consequence'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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For Humeans the world is a world primarily of events [Mumford]
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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 / 6. Criterion for Existence
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That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni]
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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 / 7. Fictionalism
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If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni]
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We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni]
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