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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'How Things Persist' and 'The Principles of Mathematics'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
11010 Being is what belongs to every possible object of thought [Russell]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
14161 Many things have being (as topics of propositions), but may not have actual existence [Russell]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
5992 Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman]
14173 What exists has causal relations, but non-existent things may also have them [Russell]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
16211 A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
21673 There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
16219 Non-linguistic things cannot be indeterminate, because they don't have truth-values at all [Hawley]
16223 Maybe for the world to be vague, it must be vague in its foundations? [Hawley]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
16226 Epistemic vagueness seems right in the case of persons [Hawley]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
16208 Supervaluation refers to one vaguely specified thing, through satisfaction by everything in some range [Hawley]
16221 Supervaluationism takes what the truth-value would have been if indecision was resolved [Hawley]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
16652 Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
14163 Four classes of terms: instants, points, terms at instants only, and terms at instants and points [Russell]