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'After Finitude', 'Liberalism and the Limits of Justice' and 'Vagueness'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
19659
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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 / 5. Reason for Existence
19662
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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
19654
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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 / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]
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9054
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Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]
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