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Ideas for 'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Models' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

7017	The reductionist programme dispenses with levels of reality [Heil]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

7003	There are levels of organisation, complexity, description and explanation, but not of reality [Heil]

16062

A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

16061

If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

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

7045	Realism says some of our concepts 'cut nature at the joints' [Heil]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

7065	Anti-realists who reduce reality to language must explain the existence of language [Heil]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

16060

Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

16064

The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

7020	Concepts don't carve up the world, which has endless overlooked or ignored divisions [Heil]