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Ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Categories' and 'Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
13884 The idea that 'exist' has multiple senses is not coherent [Wright,C]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
11286 Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication [Politis on Aristotle]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
1700 There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
8978 Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
1699 A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence [Aristotle]
18366 Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence [Aristotle]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
13877 Singular terms in true sentences must refer to objects; there is no further question about their existence [Wright,C]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
13121 Substance,Quantity,Quality,Relation,Place,Time,Being-in-a-position,Having,Doing,Being affected [Aristotle, by Westerhoff]
3311 The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially [Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
11035 There are ten basic categories for thinking about things [Aristotle]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
16116 Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc. [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]