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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' and 'After Finitude'
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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 / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Russell's new logical atomist was of particulars, universals and facts (not platonic propositions) [Russell, by Linsky,B]
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Russell's atomic facts are actually compounds, and his true logical atoms are sense data [Russell, by Quine]
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Logical atomism aims at logical atoms as the last residue of analysis [Russell]
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Once you have enumerated all the atomic facts, there is a further fact that those are all the facts [Russell]
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Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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You can't name all the facts, so they are not real, but are what propositions assert [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Russell asserts atomic, existential, negative and general facts [Russell, by Armstrong]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell]
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