Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Empedocles, G.A. Cohen and Jan Westerhoff
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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How far down before we are too specialised to have a category? [Westerhoff]
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Maybe objects in the same category have the same criteria of identity [Westerhoff]
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Categories are base-sets which are used to construct states of affairs [Westerhoff]
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Categories are held to explain why some substitutions give falsehood, and others meaninglessness [Westerhoff]
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Categories systematize our intuitions about generality, substitutability, and identity [Westerhoff]
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Categories as generalities don't give a criterion for a low-level cut-off point [Westerhoff]
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Categories can be ordered by both containment and generality [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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The aim is that everything should belong in some ontological category or other [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Ontological categories are like formal axioms, not unique and with necessary membership [Westerhoff]
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Categories merely systematise, and are not intrinsic to objects [Westerhoff]
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A thing's ontological category depends on what else exists, so it is contingent [Westerhoff]
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