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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
8321 All possible worlds contain abstracta (e.g. numbers), which means they contain concrete objects [Lowe]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
8300 Perhaps possession of causal power is the hallmark of existence (and a reason to deny the void) [Lowe]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
8281 Heraclitus says change is new creation, and Spinoza that it is just phases of the one substance [Lowe]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
8270 Events are changes or non-changes in properties and relations of persisting objects [Lowe]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
8308 Events are ontologically indispensable for singular causal explanations [Lowe]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
12747 Monads are not extended, but have a kind of situation in extension [Leibniz]
12748 Only monads are substances, and bodies are collections of them [Leibniz]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
13184 The division of nature into matter makes distinct appearances, and that presupposes substances [Leibniz]
13188 The only indications of reality are agreement among phenomena, and their agreement with necessities [Leibniz]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
12752 Only unities have any reality [Leibniz]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
8314 Are facts wholly abstract, or can they contain some concrete constituents? [Lowe]
8316 Facts cannot be wholly abstract if they enter into causal relations [Lowe]
8318 The problem with the structured complex view of facts is what binds the constituents [Lowe]
8323 It is whimsical to try to count facts - how many facts did I learn before breakfast? [Lowe]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / e. Facts rejected
8313 Facts are needed for truth-making and causation, but they seem to lack identity criteria [Lowe]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
13187 In actual things nothing is indefinite [Leibniz]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
8258 Two of the main rivals for the foundations of ontology are substances, and facts or states-of-affairs [Lowe]
8301 Some abstractions exist despite lacking causal powers, because explanation needs them [Lowe]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
8283 Ontological categories are not natural kinds: the latter can only be distinguished using the former [Lowe]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
8284 The top division of categories is either abstract/concrete, or universal/particular, or necessary/contingent [Lowe]
13122 Lowe divides things into universals and particulars, then kinds and properties, and abstract/concrete [Lowe, by Westerhoff]