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'After Finitude', 'On the Plurality of Worlds' and 'Noneism or Allism?'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis]
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The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis]
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There are only two kinds: sets, and possibilia (actual and possible particulars) [Lewis, by Oliver]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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Abstractions may well be verbal fictions, in which we ignore some features of an object [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Vagueness is semantic indecision: we haven't settled quite what our words are meant to express [Lewis]
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Whether or not France is hexagonal depends on your standards of precision [Lewis]
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