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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Existence,Ontological Commitment and Fictions' and 'A Structural Account of Mathematics'

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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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

9559	If a successful theory confirms mathematics, presumably a failed theory disconfirms it? [Chihara]

9566	No scientific explanation would collapse if mathematical objects were shown not to exist [Chihara]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]