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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'A Study of Concepts' and 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things'

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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 / 2. Realism

19240

Realism is the belief that there is something in the being of things corresponding to our reasoning [Peirce]

19239

There may be no reality; it's just our one desperate hope of knowing anything [Peirce]