Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes' and 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]