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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
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If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato]
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Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
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