Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Consciousness', 'Trees, Terms and Truth' and 'Essence and Modality'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18917

Existence and nonexistence are characteristics of the world, not of objects [Engelbretsen]

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 / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

11151

An object is dependent if its essence prevents it from existing without some other object [Fine,K]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

18916

Facts are not in the world - they are properties of the world [Engelbretsen]

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

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

7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

18921

Individuals are arranged in inclusion categories that match our semantics [Engelbretsen]