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'A Priori', 'Parts of Classes' and 'How Things Persist'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Existence doesn't come in degrees; once asserted, it can't then be qualified [Lewis]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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We have no idea of a third sort of thing, that isn't an individual, a class, or their mixture [Lewis]
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Atomless gunk is an individual whose parts all have further proper parts [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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Non-linguistic things cannot be indeterminate, because they don't have truth-values at all [Hawley]
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Maybe for the world to be vague, it must be vague in its foundations? [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
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Epistemic vagueness seems right in the case of persons [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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Supervaluation refers to one vaguely specified thing, through satisfaction by everything in some range [Hawley]
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Supervaluationism takes what the truth-value would have been if indecision was resolved [Hawley]
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