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'On What Grounds What', 'What Metaphors Mean' and 'Ontological Relativity'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine]
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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 / d. Commitment of theories
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Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine]
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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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