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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Metaphysics of Properties' and 'True in Theory, but not in Practice'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

458	Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

5112	Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates

10747

Accepting properties by ontological commitment tells you very little about them [Oliver]

10748

Reference is not the only way for a predicate to have ontological commitment [Oliver]