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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Conceptual truth and metaphysical necessity' and 'After Finitude'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]
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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 / 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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