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'Ways of Worldmaking', 'fragments/reports' and 'Individuals without Sortals'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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Events do not have natural boundaries, and we have to set them [Ayers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman]
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