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Ideas for 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', 'Ontological Dependence' and 'The Trouble with Being Born'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence

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An object's 'being' isn't existence; there's more to an object than existence, and its nature doesn't include existence [Fine,K]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

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There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions [Fine,K]

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A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does [Fine,K]

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An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition [Fine,K]

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Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another [Fine,K]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran]