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'works', 'Causation' and 'Clarification and Defense of Grounding'
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Avoid 'in virtue of' for grounding, since it might imply a reflexive relation such as identity [Audi,P]
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Ground relations depend on the properties [Audi,P]
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A ball's being spherical non-causally determines its power to roll [Audi,P]
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Ground is irreflexive, asymmetric, transitive, non-monotonic etc. [Audi,P]
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17303
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The best critique of grounding says it is actually either identity or elimination [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / b. Relata of grounding
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Grounding is a singular relation between worldly facts [Audi,P]
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If grounding relates facts, properties must be included, as well as objects [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation
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We must accept grounding, for our important explanations [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / d. Grounding and reduction
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Reduction is just identity, so the two things are the same fact, so reduction isn't grounding [Audi,P]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Worldly facts are obtaining states of affairs, with constituents; conceptual facts also depend on concepts [Audi,P]
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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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