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'On What Grounds What', 'On Denoting' and 'Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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Is being just referent of the verb 'to be'? [Marcus (Barcan)]
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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 / 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 / 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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