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Ideas for Cleanthes, Jan Westerhoff and Friedrich Nietzsche

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
20360 We Germans value becoming and development more highly than mere being of what 'is' [Nietzsche]
7079 Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
20359 The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
18317 The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
18315 We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
24112 To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche]
24131 There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
23211 Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
14869 If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
7153 We can't be realists, because we don't know what being is [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
18316 The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism
24151 I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth [Nietzsche]
20123 First see nature as non-human, then fit ourselves into this view of nature [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / e. Facts rejected
4525 There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations [Nietzsche]
4543 There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts' [Nietzsche]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
13117 How far down before we are too specialised to have a category? [Westerhoff]
13116 Maybe objects in the same category have the same criteria of identity [Westerhoff]
13124 Categories can be ordered by both containment and generality [Westerhoff]
13118 Categories are base-sets which are used to construct states of affairs [Westerhoff]
13125 Categories are held to explain why some substitutions give falsehood, and others meaninglessness [Westerhoff]
13126 Categories systematize our intuitions about generality, substitutability, and identity [Westerhoff]
13130 Categories as generalities don't give a criterion for a low-level cut-off point [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
13131 The aim is that everything should belong in some ontological category or other [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
13123 All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
7174 Categories are not metaphysical truths, but inventions in the service of needs [Nietzsche]
7175 Philosophers find it particularly hard to shake off belief in necessary categories [Nietzsche]
13115 Ontological categories are like formal axioms, not unique and with necessary membership [Westerhoff]
13119 Categories merely systematise, and are not intrinsic to objects [Westerhoff]
13135 A thing's ontological category depends on what else exists, so it is contingent [Westerhoff]