Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Epicurus and Robert Nozick
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]
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If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]
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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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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]
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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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