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Ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and 'Philosophy of Mind'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

8960	Internal questions about abstractions are trivial, and external ones deeply problematic [Carnap, by Szabó]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

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Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]

19401

God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

4616	A higher level is 'supervenient' if it is determined by lower levels, but has its own natural laws [Heil]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies

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Existence questions are 'internal' (within a framework) or 'external' (concerning the whole framework) [Carnap]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

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To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself [Carnap]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

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A linguistic framework involves commitment to entities, so only commitment to the framework is in question [Carnap]