Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Empedocles, Leon Battista Alberti and Stephen Yablo
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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Concrete objects have few essential properties, but properties of abstractions are mostly essential [Yablo]
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We are thought to know concreta a posteriori, and many abstracta a priori [Yablo]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo]
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Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo]
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'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo]
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We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]
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Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo]
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