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Ideas for 'Consciousness', 'Problems of Philosophy' and 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6532	Types cannot be reduced, but levels of reduction are varied groupings of the same tokens [Lycan]

6531	Institutions are not reducible as types, but they are as tokens [Lycan]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

6534	One location may contain molecules, a metal strip, a key, an opener of doors, and a human tragedy [Lycan]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Realism is the belief that there is something in the being of things corresponding to our reasoning [Peirce]

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There may be no reality; it's just our one desperate hope of knowing anything [Peirce]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

5370	Space is neutral between touch and sight, so it cannot really be either of them [Russell]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths

5418	In a world of mere matter there might be 'facts', but no truths [Russell]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

6529	I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics [Lycan]