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'Through the Looking Glass', 'Existence and Quantification' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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Philosophers tend to distinguish broad 'being' from narrower 'existence' - but I reject that [Quine]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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Existence is implied by the quantifiers, not by the constants [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
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Theories are committed to objects of which some of its predicates must be true [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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Express a theory in first-order predicate logic; its ontology is the types of bound variable needed for truth [Quine, by Lowe]
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Ontological commitment of theories only arise if they are classically quantified [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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You can be implicitly committed to something without quantifying over it [Thomasson on Quine]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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In formal terms, a category is the range of some style of variables [Quine]
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