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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals' and 'Ways of Worldmaking'

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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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

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We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman]

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

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I reject talk of 'stuff', and treat it in terms of particles [Inwagen]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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To explain object qualities, primary qualities must be more than mere sources of experience [McGinn]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

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Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Singular terms can be vague, because they can contain predicates, which can be vague [Inwagen]

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]