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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'fragments/reports'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

18946

Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

17993

Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]