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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Allan Gibbard and Karen Bennett

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

16049	Definitions of physicalism are compatible with a necessary God [Bennett,K]
	Full Idea: All definitions of physicalism are compatible with the existence of a necessarily existing God.
	From: Karen Bennett (Supervenience [2011], 5.4)
	A reaction: All the definitions seem to depend on all the facts covarying with the physical facts, so anything which is invariant (such as divine or platonic entities) will stand outside the definition. Physicalism is more like a credo about all facts whatever.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

12226	The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: Identity is sometimes read so that 'Pegasus is Pegasus' expresses a truth, the non-existence of any winged horse notwithstanding.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §5)
	A reaction: This would give you ontological commitment to truth, without commitment to existence. It undercuts the use of identity statements as the basis of existence claims, which was Frege's strategy.