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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'The Communists and Peace' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

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I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

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

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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

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

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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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The truth about events always comes from the oppressed and disadvantaged [Sartre, by Bakewell]