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Ideas for 'Confessions', 'New work for a theory of universals' and 'Sapiens: brief history of humankind'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence [Augustine]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

8607	Supervenience is reduction without existence denials, ontological priorities, or translatability [Lewis]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

8606	A supervenience thesis is a denial of independent variation [Lewis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies

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Three main questions seem to be whether a thing is, what it is, and what sort it is [Augustine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

8580	Materialism is (roughly) that two worlds cannot differ without differing physically [Lewis]