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'On What Grounds What', 'Equality' and 'Parts of Classes'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Existence doesn't come in degrees; once asserted, it can't then be qualified [Lewis]
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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We have no idea of a third sort of thing, that isn't an individual, a class, or their mixture [Lewis]
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Atomless gunk is an individual whose parts all have further proper parts [Lewis]
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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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