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'Parmenides', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'Truthmakers'
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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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Maybe it only exists if it is a truthmaker (rather than the value of a variable)? [MacBride]
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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 / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Different types of 'grounding' seem to have no more than a family resemblance relation [MacBride]
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Which has priority - 'grounding' or 'truth-making'? [MacBride]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Russell allows some complex facts, but Wittgenstein only allows atomic facts [MacBride]
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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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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 / 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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