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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'works' and 'Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations)'

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

8643	Affirmation of existence is just denial of zero [Frege]

19659

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

8911	If abstracta are non-mental, quarks are abstracta, and yet chess and God's thoughts are mental [Rosen on Frege]

8634	The equator is imaginary, but not fictitious; thought is needed to recognise it [Frege]

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]