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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Deflating Existential Consequence' and 'Consciousness: matter becomes imagination'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni]
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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 / 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 / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni]
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We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni]
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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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