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'After Finitude', 'The Essential Child' and 'Political Philosophy: all that matters'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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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
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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
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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 / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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Even fairly simple animals make judgements based on categories [Gelman]
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Children accept real stable categories, with nonobvious potential that gives causal explanations [Gelman]
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