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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'poems (frags)' and 'Briefings on Existence'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets [Badiou]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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Existence is Being itself, but only as our thought decides it [Badiou]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One [Badiou]
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The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is' [Badiou]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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The reductionist programme dispenses with levels of reality [Heil]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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There are levels of organisation, complexity, description and explanation, but not of reality [Heil]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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Ontology is (and always has been) Cantorian mathematics [Badiou]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Realism says some of our concepts 'cut nature at the joints' [Heil]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realists who reduce reality to language must explain the existence of language [Heil]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Concepts don't carve up the world, which has endless overlooked or ignored divisions [Heil]
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