Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Carl Ginet, Gilles Deleuze and Paul Audi
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17 ideas
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]
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21904
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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]
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21847
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Before Being there is politics [Deleuze]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Avoid 'in virtue of' for grounding, since it might imply a reflexive relation such as identity [Audi,P]
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Ground relations depend on the properties [Audi,P]
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A ball's being spherical non-causally determines its power to roll [Audi,P]
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Ground is irreflexive, asymmetric, transitive, non-monotonic etc. [Audi,P]
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17303
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The best critique of grounding says it is actually either identity or elimination [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / b. Relata of grounding
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Grounding is a singular relation between worldly facts [Audi,P]
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If grounding relates facts, properties must be included, as well as objects [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation
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We must accept grounding, for our important explanations [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / d. Grounding and reduction
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Reduction is just identity, so the two things are the same fact, so reduction isn't grounding [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Worldly facts are obtaining states of affairs, with constituents; conceptual facts also depend on concepts [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May]
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