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All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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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]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

9471	Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised [Quine]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]