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All the ideas for 'Natural Science (lost)', 'Set Theory and its Logic' and 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility

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Reducibility undermines type ramification, and is committed to the existence of functions [Quine, by Linsky,B]

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

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]

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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]

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

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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]