Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Tim Button and Allan Gibbard

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

458	Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

5112	Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button]

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An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button]