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'A Résumé of Metaphysics', 'fragments/reports' and 'The Conscious Mind'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all [Parmenides]
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449
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike [Parmenides]
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447
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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445
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The realm of necessary non-existence cannot be explored, because it is unknowable [Parmenides]
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There is no such thing as nothing [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm [Parmenides, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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452
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All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Reduction requires logical supervenience [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Physicalism says in any two physically indiscernible worlds the positive facts are the same [Chalmers, by Bennett,K]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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All facts are either physical, experiential, laws of nature, second-order final facts, or indexical facts about me [Chalmers]
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