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Ideas for 'Letter to Herodotus', 'Necessary Beings' and 'Introduction to Zermelo's 1930 paper'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

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Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]

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If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]

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

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The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

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Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it [Hale]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths

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There is no gap between a fact that p, and it is true that p; so we only have the truth-condtions for p [Hale]