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Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'To be is to be the value of a variable..' and 'The Ethics'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

17174

Outside the mind, there are just things and their properties [Spinoza]

17176

The more reality a thing has, the more attributes it has [Spinoza]

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

17179

There must always be a reason or cause why some triangle does or does not exist [Spinoza]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

17186

Men say they prefer order, not realising that we imagine the order [Spinoza]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

6280	Realism is a theory, which explains the convergence of science and the success of language [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism

20127

Laws of nature are universal, so everything must be understood through those laws [Spinoza]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

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First- and second-order quantifiers are two ways of referring to the same things [Boolos]