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'The Psychophysical Nexus', 'talk' and 'Speaking of Objects'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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We can only see an alien language in terms of our own thought structures (e.g. physical/abstract) [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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"No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia]
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