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'works', 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience' and 'On Denoting'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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Russell showed that descriptions may not have ontological commitment [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals [Russell, by Monk]
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