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Ideas for 'No Understanding without Explanation', 'Some Puzzles of Ground' and 'On Interpretation'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

1706	Non-existent things aren't made to exist by thought, because their non-existence is part of the thought [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: It is not true to say that what is not, since it is thought about, is something that is; for what is thought about it is not that it is, but that it is not.
	From: Aristotle (On Interpretation [c.330 BCE], 21a31)
	A reaction: At least there has been one philosopher who was quite clear about the distinction between a thought and what the thought is about (its content). Often forgotten!

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

1707	Maybe necessity and non-necessity are the first principles of ontology [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Perhaps the necessary and non-necessary are first principles of everything's either being or not being.
	From: Aristotle (On Interpretation [c.330 BCE], 23a18)

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

14262	Formal grounding needs transitivity of grounding, no self-grounding, and the existence of both parties [Fine,K]
	Full Idea: The general formal principles of grounding are Transitivity (A«B, B«C/A«C: if A helps ground B and B helps C, then A helps C), Irreflexivity (A«A/absurd: A can't ground itself) and Factivity (A«B/A; A«/B: for grounding both A and B must be the case).
	From: Kit Fine (Some Puzzles of Ground [2010], 4)