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Ideas for 'Being and Nothingness', 'On Denoting' and 'Categories'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
11286 Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication [Politis on Aristotle]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
22227 For Sartre there is only being for-itself, or being in-itself (which is beyond experience) [Sartre, by Daigle]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
1700 There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
1699 A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence [Aristotle]
18366 Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence [Aristotle]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
18775 Russell showed that descriptions may not have ontological commitment [Russell, by Linsky,B]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
7533 The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals [Russell, by Monk]
13121 Substance,Quantity,Quality,Relation,Place,Time,Being-in-a-position,Having,Doing,Being affected [Aristotle, by Westerhoff]
3311 The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially [Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
11035 There are ten basic categories for thinking about things [Aristotle]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
16116 Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc. [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]