Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM and JP Burgess / G Rosen

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

9918	Abstract/concrete is a distinction of kind, not degree [Burgess/Rosen]

9929	Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden' [Burgess/Rosen]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / b. Levels of abstraction

9927	Mathematics has ascended to higher and higher levels of abstraction [Burgess/Rosen]

9930	Abstraction is on a scale, of sets, to attributes, to type-formulas, to token-formulas [Burgess/Rosen]