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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' and 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld'

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5 ideas

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

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being

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What is not truly one being is not truly a being either [Leibniz]

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 / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

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A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship [Leibniz]