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Single Idea 13739
[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
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Full Idea
Maybe the categories are determined by the different grounding relations, ..so that categories just are the ways things depend on substances. ...Categories are places in the dependence ordering.
Gist of Idea
Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 1.3)
Book Ref
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.355
The
12 ideas
from 'On What Grounds What'
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13734
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Modern Quinean metaphysics is about what exists, but Aristotelian metaphysics asks about grounding
[Schaffer,J]
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13739
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Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances
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13743
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We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like
[Schaffer,J]
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13741
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If 'there are red roses' implies 'there are roses', then 'there are prime numbers' implies 'there are numbers'
[Schaffer,J]
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13744
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The cosmos is the only fundamental entity, from which all else exists by abstraction
[Schaffer,J]
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13740
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'Moorean certainties' are more credible than any sceptical argument
[Schaffer,J]
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13742
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There exist heaps with no integral unity, so we should accept arbitrary composites in the same way
[Schaffer,J]
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13748
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Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics
[Schaffer,J]
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13747
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Supervenience is just modal correlation
[Schaffer,J]
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13751
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If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse
[Schaffer,J]
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13749
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Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism
[Schaffer,J]
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13752
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The notion of 'grounding' can explain integrated wholes in a way that mere aggregates can't
[Schaffer,J]
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