Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Timon, Empedocles and Theodore Sider

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
458 Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
5112 Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
14760 Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category [Sider]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
15017 Supervenience is a modal connection [Sider]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / b. Types of fundamental
15008 Is fundamentality in whole propositions (and holistic), or in concepts (and atomic)? [Sider]
15013 Tables and chairs have fundamental existence, but not fundamental natures [Sider]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
15014 Unlike things, stuff obeys unrestricted composition and mereological essentialism [Sider]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
15009 We must distinguish 'concrete' from 'abstract' and necessary states of affairs. [Sider]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
13692 A 'precisification' of a trivalent interpretation reduces it to a bivalent interpretation [Sider]
13693 A 'supervaluation' assigns further Ts and Fs, if they have been assigned in every precisification [Sider]
13695 Supervaluational logic is classical, except when it adds the 'Definitely' operator [Sider]
13694 We can 'sharpen' vague terms, and then define truth as true-on-all-sharpenings [Sider]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
14983 Accept the ontology of your best theory - and also that it carves nature at the joints [Sider]