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Ideas for 'Every Thing Must Go', 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Letter to Herodotus'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
14028 Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]
14029 If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]
4475 Saying a thing 'is' adds nothing to it - otherwise if my concept exists, it isn't the same as my concept [Kant]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
14948 To be is to be a real pattern [Ladyman/Ross]
14942 Only admit into ontology what is explanatory and predictive [Ladyman/Ross]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
14030 The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
14947 Any process can be described as transfer of measurable information [Ladyman/Ross]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / a. Fundamental reality
14941 We say there is no fundamental level to ontology, and reality is just patterns [Ladyman/Ross]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
10493 If concrete is spatio-temporal and causal, and abstract isn't, the distinction doesn't suit physics [Ladyman/Ross]
14934 Concrete and abstract are too crude for modern physics [Ladyman/Ross]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
7416 Kant is read as the phenomena being 'contrained' by the noumenon, or 'free-floating' [Talbot on Kant]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
19386 Without the subject or the senses, space and time vanish, as their appearances disappear [Kant]
21445 Even the most perfect intuition gets no closer to things in themselves [Kant]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
14048 Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]
14909 Physicalism is 'part-whole' (all parts are physical), or 'supervenience/levels' (dependence on physical) [Ladyman/Ross]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
21448 Categories are general concepts of objects, which determine the way in which they are experienced [Kant]
5554 Categories are necessary, so can't be implanted in us to agree with natural laws [Kant]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
6160 Does Kant say the mind imposes categories, or that it restricts us to them? [Rowlands on Kant]