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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past', 'On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum')' and 'Possibility'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being

13404

To exist necessarily is to have an essence whose own essence must be instantiated [Jubien]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

8198	A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett]

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

13386

If objects are just conventional, there is no ontological distinction between stuff and things [Jubien]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

8192	I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

13403

The category of Venus is not 'object', or even 'planet', but a particular class of good-sized object [Jubien]