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All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'On 'Physics''

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]

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Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]