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All the ideas for 'Difference and Repetition', 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience' and 'Structure and Ontology'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]

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

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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]

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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]

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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]

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]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring

9626	A structure is an abstraction, focussing on relationships, and ignoring other features [Shapiro]