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'works', 'Ordinary Objects' and 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences'
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11 ideas
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Hegel, by Scruton]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Existence might require playing a role in explanation, or in a causal story, or being composed in some way [Thomasson]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]
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Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Rival ontological claims can both be true, if there are analytic relationships between them [Thomasson]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]
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Theories do not avoid commitment to entities by avoiding certain terms or concepts [Thomasson]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
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For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
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Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Hegel, by Houlgate]
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