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'Metaphysics: the logical approach', 'On What Grounds What' and 'Concepts without Boundaries'
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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If slowness is a property of walking rather than the walker, we must allow that events exist [Benardete,JA]
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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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Early pre-Socratics had a mass-noun ontology, which was replaced by count-nouns [Benardete,JA]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury]
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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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