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'works', 'Letter to Herodotus' and 'Person and Object'
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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]
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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 / 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]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Events are states of affairs that occur at certain places and times [Chisholm]
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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]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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I propose that events and propositions are two types of states of affairs [Chisholm]
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The mark of a state of affairs is that it is capable of being accepted [Chisholm]
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A state of affairs pertains to a thing if it implies that it has some property [Chisholm]
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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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