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'On What Grounds What', 'How to Russell a Frege-Church' 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 / 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 / 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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