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Ideas for 'works', 'After Finitude' and 'Reason, Truth and History'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

19659

The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19662

It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19654

We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]

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

14214

If we try to cure the abundance of theories with causal links, this is 'just more theory' [Putnam, by Lewis]

14205

The sentence 'A cat is on a mat' remains always true when 'cat' means cherry and 'mat' means tree [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

7610	A fact is simply what it is rational to accept [Putnam]