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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

11010

Being is what belongs to every possible object of thought [Russell]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence

14161

Many things have being (as topics of propositions), but may not have actual existence [Russell]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

14173

What exists has causal relations, but non-existent things may also have them [Russell]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

3310	If slowness is a property of walking rather than the walker, we must allow that events exist [Benardete,JA]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

12793

Early pre-Socratics had a mass-noun ontology, which was replaced by count-nouns [Benardete,JA]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

14163

Four classes of terms: instants, points, terms at instants only, and terms at instants and points [Russell]