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'Mathematical Methods in Philosophy', 'How Things Persist' and 'Events'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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If 'exist' doesn't express a property, we can hardly ask for its essence [Horsten/Pettigrew]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons]
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Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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Non-linguistic things cannot be indeterminate, because they don't have truth-values at all [Hawley]
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Maybe for the world to be vague, it must be vague in its foundations? [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
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Epistemic vagueness seems right in the case of persons [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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Supervaluation refers to one vaguely specified thing, through satisfaction by everything in some range [Hawley]
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Supervaluationism takes what the truth-value would have been if indecision was resolved [Hawley]
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