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'On What Grounds What', 'On Denoting' and 'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics [Schaffer,J]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience is just modal correlation [Schaffer,J]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Russell's new logical atomist was of particulars, universals and facts (not platonic propositions) [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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Russell's atomic facts are actually compounds, and his true logical atoms are sense data [Russell, by Quine]
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Logical atomism aims at logical atoms as the last residue of analysis [Russell]
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Once you have enumerated all the atomic facts, there is a further fact that those are all the facts [Russell]
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Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality [Russell]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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The cosmos is the only fundamental entity, from which all else exists by abstraction [Schaffer,J]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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You can't name all the facts, so they are not real, but are what propositions assert [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Russell asserts atomic, existential, negative and general facts [Russell, by Armstrong]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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Russell showed that descriptions may not have ontological commitment [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals [Russell, by Monk]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
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Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances [Schaffer,J]
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