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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Theological and other works' and 'Letter to Herodotus'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
14028 Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]
14029 If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]
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 / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
14030 The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
14048 Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]