Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Penelope Maddy, Roderick Chisholm and Jan Westerhoff

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
15832 Events are states of affairs that occur at certain places and times [Chisholm]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
15829 The mark of a state of affairs is that it is capable of being accepted [Chisholm]
15809 A state of affairs pertains to a thing if it implies that it has some property [Chisholm]
15828 I propose that events and propositions are two types of states of affairs [Chisholm]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
18205 The theoretical indispensability of atoms did not at first convince scientists that they were real [Maddy]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
13118 Categories are base-sets which are used to construct states of affairs [Westerhoff]
13125 Categories are held to explain why some substitutions give falsehood, and others meaninglessness [Westerhoff]
13126 Categories systematize our intuitions about generality, substitutability, and identity [Westerhoff]
13130 Categories as generalities don't give a criterion for a low-level cut-off point [Westerhoff]
13124 Categories can be ordered by both containment and generality [Westerhoff]
13117 How far down before we are too specialised to have a category? [Westerhoff]
13116 Maybe objects in the same category have the same criteria of identity [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
13131 The aim is that everything should belong in some ontological category or other [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
13120 Chisholm divides things into contingent and necessary, and then individuals, states and non-states [Chisholm, by Westerhoff]
13123 All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events [Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
13115 Ontological categories are like formal axioms, not unique and with necessary membership [Westerhoff]
13119 Categories merely systematise, and are not intrinsic to objects [Westerhoff]
13135 A thing's ontological category depends on what else exists, so it is contingent [Westerhoff]