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'On What Grounds What', 'In Praed.' and 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis'
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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A river is a process, with stages; if we consider it as one thing, we are considering a process [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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We don't say 'red' is abstract, unlike a river, just because it has discontinuous shape [Quine]
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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 / a. Ontological commitment
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General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [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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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree [Quine]
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