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'works', 'Ontological Dependence' and 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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An object's 'being' isn't existence; there's more to an object than existence, and its nature doesn't include existence [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions [Fine,K]
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A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does [Fine,K]
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An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition [Fine,K]
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Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
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