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Expansion for Existence

1051 1. Philosophy
624 2. Reason
626 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1242 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1042 7. Existence
A. Nature of Existence
21 1. Nature of Existence
18 2. Types of Existence
28 3. Being a. Nature of Being
4 b. Being and existence
11 c. Becoming
13 d. Non-being
9 e. Being and nothing
15 f. Primary being
16 g. Particular being
18 h. Dasein (being human)
10 i. Deflating being
13 4. Abstract Existence
18 5. Reason for Existence
34 6. Criterion for Existence
B. Change in Existence
29 1. Nature of Change
21 2. Processes
4 3. Moments
17 4. Events a. Nature of events
11 b. Events as primitive
19 c. Reduction of events
C. Structure of Existence
25 1. Grounding a. Nature of grounding
8 b. Relata of grounding
8 c. Grounding and explanation
2 d. Grounding and reduction
25 2. Reduction
6 3. Levels of Reality
17 4. Ontological Dependence
14 5. Supervenience a. Nature of supervenience
9 b. Types of supervenience
23 c. Significance of supervenience
8 d. Humean supervenience
3 6. Fundamentals a. Fundamental reality
2 b. Types of fundamental
24 c. Monads
24 d. Logical atoms
26 7. Abstract/Concrete a. Abstract/concrete
6 b. Levels of abstraction
17 8. Stuff a. Pure stuff
7 b. Mixtures
D. Theories of Reality
15 1. Ontologies
41 2. Realism
25 3. Reality
36 4. Anti-realism
6 5. Naturalism
20 6. Physicalism
12 7. Fictionalism
21 8. Facts a. Facts
12 b. Types of fact
6 c. Facts and truths
6 d. Negative facts
4 e. Facts rejected
8 9. States of Affairs
7 10. Vagueness a. Problem of vagueness
15 b. Vagueness of reality
14 c. Vagueness as ignorance
18 d. Vagueness as linguistic
2 e. Higher-order vagueness
30 f. Supervaluation for vagueness
7 g. Degrees of vagueness
21 11. Ontological Commitment a. Ontological commitment
9 b. Commitment of quantifiers
5 c. Commitment of predicates
11 d. Commitment of theories
17 e. Ontological commitment problems
E. Categories
21 1. Categories
18 2. Categorisation
23 3. Proposed Categories
11 4. Category Realism
18 5. Category Anti-Realism
881 8. Modes of Existence
1527 9. Objects
799 10. Modality
485 11. Knowledge Aims
713 12. Knowledge Sources
633 13. Knowledge Criteria
675 14. Science
548 15. Nature of Minds
494 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
858 18. Thought
835 19. Language
313 20. Action
270 21. Aesthetics
973 22. Metaethics
991 23. Ethics
924 24. Political Theory
752 25. Social Practice
992 26. Natural Theory
719 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
302 29. Religion