Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Lars Svendsen and Chris Swoyer
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space) [Swoyer]
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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 / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic [Swoyer]
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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 / 1. Ontologies
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Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realists can't explain different methods to measure distance [Swoyer]
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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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