Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Posidonius and Trenton Merricks

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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The totality state is the most plausible truthmaker for negative existential truths [Merricks]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

6143	Prolonged events don't seem to endure or exist at any particular time [Merricks]

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 / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

16064

The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

6135	A crumbling statue can't become vague, because vagueness is incoherent [Merricks]