Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion' and 'Abstract Entities'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

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Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space) [Swoyer]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies

14594

Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

14595

Can properties exemplify other properties? [Swoyer]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

14593

Quantum field theory suggests that there are, fundamentally, no individual things [Swoyer]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

21798

To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity [Hegel]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

21797

Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel]