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Single Idea 14254
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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Full Idea
The notion of one object depending upon another is the real counterpart to the nominal notion of one term being definable in terms of another.
Gist of Idea
Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another
Source
Kit Fine (Ontological Dependence [1995], II)
Book Ref
-: 'Aristotelian Society' [], p.275
A Reaction
This begins to fill out the Aristotelian picture very nicely, since definitions are right at the centre of the nature of things (though a much more transitional part of the story than Fine seems to think).
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[things that rely on other things for their existence]:
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1699
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A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence
[Aristotle]
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18366
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Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence
[Aristotle]
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24057
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What is prior is always potentially present in what is next in order
[Aristotle]
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11154
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Prior things can exist without posterior things, but not vice versa
[Aristotle]
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17443
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Many of us find Frege's claim that truths depend on one another an obscure idea
[Heck on Frege]
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17445
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Parallelism is intuitive, so it is more fundamental than sameness of direction
[Frege, by Heck]
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17656
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Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system
[Goodman]
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11919
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Ontological dependence rests on essential connection, not necessary connection
[Molnar]
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11151
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An object is dependent if its essence prevents it from existing without some other object
[Fine,K]
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14251
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A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does
[Fine,K]
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14257
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An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition
[Fine,K]
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14254
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Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another
[Fine,K]
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14261
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There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions
[Fine,K]
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12879
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Independent objects can exist apart, and maybe even entirely alone
[Simons]
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14091
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There may be a one-way direction of dependence among sets, and among natural numbers
[Linnebo]
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17327
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Non-causal dependence is at present only dimly understood
[Liggins]
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17720
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There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence
[Jenkins, by PG]
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