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Ideas for 'Consciousness', 'The Limits of Abstraction' and 'Events and Their Names'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

10145

Abstracts cannot be identified with sets [Fine,K]

10136

Points in Euclidean space are abstract objects, but not introduced by abstraction [Fine,K]

10144

Postulationism says avoid abstract objects by giving procedures that produce truth [Fine,K]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

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

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

6532	Types cannot be reduced, but levels of reduction are varied groupings of the same 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 / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

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