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Ideas for 'On the Philosophy of Logic', 'Seven Types of Atheism' and 'The Realm of Matter'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18521	The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]
	Full Idea: The possibility of action ...is the criterion of existence, and the test of substantiality.
	From: George Santayana (The Realm of Matter [1930], p.107), quoted by John Heil - The Universe as We Find It
	A reaction: I rather like this. I think I would say the power is the criterion of existence.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

8946	We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher]
	Full Idea: We could construct a 1,000,000-valued logic that would allow our intuitions concerning a heap to vary exactly with the amount of sand in the heap.
	From: Jennifer Fisher (On the Philosophy of Logic [2008])
	A reaction: Presumably only an infinite number of grains of sand would then produce a true heap, and even one grain would count as a bit of a heap, which must both be wrong, so I can't see this helping much.