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Ideas for '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

19659

The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19662

It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19654

We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]

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]

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 / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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