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'Confessions', 'The Passions' and 'Reason, Truth and History'
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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]
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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]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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If we try to cure the abundance of theories with causal links, this is 'just more theory' [Putnam, by Lewis]
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The sentence 'A cat is on a mat' remains always true when 'cat' means cherry and 'mat' means tree [Putnam]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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A fact is simply what it is rational to accept [Putnam]
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