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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Should a materialist believe in qualia?' and 'Reason, Truth and History'

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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 / 4. Anti-realism

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If we try to cure the abundance of theories with causal links, this is 'just more theory' [Putnam, by Lewis]

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The sentence 'A cat is on a mat' remains always true when 'cat' means cherry and 'mat' means tree [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

7610	A fact is simply what it is rational to accept [Putnam]