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'Natural Kinds', 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements'' and 'Deflating Existential Consequence'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Mass terms just concern spread, but other terms involve both spread and individuation [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni]
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We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni]
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