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Ideas for 'Confessions', 'Speaking of Objects' and 'Propositions'

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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 / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

1630	We can only see an alien language in terms of our own thought structures (e.g. physical/abstract) [Quine]

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 / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

5747	"No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia]