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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Reference and Essence: seven appendices' and 'Possibility'

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7 ideas

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 / 3. Being / g. Particular being

13404

To exist necessarily is to have an essence whose own essence must be instantiated [Jubien]

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 / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

13386

If objects are just conventional, there is no ontological distinction between stuff and things [Jubien]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

14742

It can't be indeterminate whether x and y are identical; if x,y is indeterminate, then it isn't x,x [Salmon,N]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

13403

The category of Venus is not 'object', or even 'planet', but a particular class of good-sized object [Jubien]