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'After Finitude', 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed' and 'The Ethics'
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8 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]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Outside the mind, there are just things and their properties [Spinoza]
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17176
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The more reality a thing has, the more attributes it has [Spinoza]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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There must always be a reason or cause why some triangle does or does not exist [Spinoza]
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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 / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Men say they prefer order, not realising that we imagine the order [Spinoza]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism
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Laws of nature are universal, so everything must be understood through those laws [Spinoza]
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