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'After Finitude', 'Writing the Book of the World' and 'Positivism and Realism'
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Supervenience is a modal connection [Sider]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / b. Types of fundamental
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Is fundamentality in whole propositions (and holistic), or in concepts (and atomic)? [Sider]
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Tables and chairs have fundamental existence, but not fundamental natures [Sider]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Unlike things, stuff obeys unrestricted composition and mereological essentialism [Sider]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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We must distinguish 'concrete' from 'abstract' and necessary states of affairs. [Sider]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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Accept the ontology of your best theory - and also that it carves nature at the joints [Sider]
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