Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Cynthia Macdonald and Alexander Bird
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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If all existents are causally active, that excludes abstracta and causally isolated objects [Bird]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Reduce by bridge laws (plus property identities?), by elimination, or by reducing talk [Macdonald,C]
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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]
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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]
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If naturalism refers to supervenience, that leaves necessary entities untouched [Bird]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realism is more plausible about laws than about entities and theories [Bird]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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