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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'talk' and 'Mind in a Physical World'

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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

2317	Reductionism is good on light, genes, temperature and transparency [Kim, by PG]

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

2310	Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

2315	Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

2329	Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal [Kim]