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The Atlas of Reality

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by Robert C. Koons,Timothy Pickavance

see also Extreme Nominalism, Nominalism

  Reductive Separatism

  redundancy deterministic

  metaphysical

  Redundancy for Composite Entities

  reference

  reference frame privileged

  reflexive relation

  reflexive thought

  reflexivity of identity

  region (of space); see also volume Aristotelian

  spatial

  regress see infinite regress

  regular succession

  Reichenbach, Hans

  Reid, Thomas

  Reidian Common Sense (PEpist 2)

  Relata more Fundamental than Relations

  relata of causation/causal relations; see also causal relata

  relatedness

  relation ancestral of

  among properties see categorial relations

  antisymmetric

  asymmetric

  basic

  brute

  causal

  cross–temporal

  distinguishing

  essential

  external

  extrinsic

  factive

  internal

  intensional

  irreflexive

  logical

  metaphysical simultaneity

  multigrade

  natural

  negative

  non-internal

  non-symmetrical

  part-of/parthood

  part-whole

  physical simultaneity

  real

  reflexive

  second-order logical

  Simultaneity

  spatial

  sparse

  strongly internal

  symmetric

  temporal see temporal relation

  time-like

  transitive

  weakly internal

  see also genidentity relation

  Relational Connectionism

  Relational Ontology; see also Classical Relational Ontology, Extrinsicality Objection, Trope Relational Ontology

  relational property

  relational truth

  relative distance

  relativity, general

  relativity, special non-standard interpretation of

  reliability

  Reliable Perception Presumption (PEpist 4)

  renormalization

  Replacementism

  representation analogue vs. digital

  linguistic

  magical

  mental

  non-modal

  representation theorem

  resemblance collective

  comparative

  resemblance class Carnap

  comparative

  Lewis

  resemblance fact

  Resemblance Nominalism; see also Reductive Nominalism

  resemblance relation

  Resemblance Theory of Properties

  resemblance trope

  restriction problem

  resultant

  right

  rights

  rigidification

  Ritchie, Katherine

  Robinson, Abraham

  Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo

  role-switching

  Rosen, Gideon

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russell's Paradox

  Russellian (Millian) propositions

  Russellian UP

  Ryle, Gilbert

  S4 axiom

  Salmon, Wesley

  same-point relation

  Santayana, George

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  scene

  Schaffer, Jonathan

  Schlesinger, George

  scholasticism

  science philosophy of

  special

  scientific induction

  scientific investigation

  Scientific Realism (PMeth 2)

  scientific theory best

  scope of causation

  scope of negation

  Scotism

  Scotistic causal principle

  Scotus, John Duns

  Second Law of Thermodynamics

  secondary quality

  selection relation

  self; see also soul, subject of experience

  self-causation

  self-determination; see also free will

  self-identity

  self-individuation

  self-interaction

  self-reproduction

  self-sufficiency of the mental

  Sellars, Wilfrid

  semantic indecision

  semantics metaphysical

  possible worlds

  three-valued

  sensation

  sense data

  Sense Datum Theory

  sensible property

  Sensory Error Minimization

  sentence type

  sentence atomic

  feature-placing

  modal

  past-tensed

  separateness of cause and effect

  Separatism

  serial bonding

  Serious Presentism

  set extension of

  measurable

  of universals

  pure

  set membership relation

  set theory

  shape

  Shape Thickening

  Shapiro, Stewart

  sharability

  sharable property

  ship of Theseus

  Shoemaker, Sydney

  sicceity; see also thusness

  Sider, Theodore

  similarity; see also resemblance

  similarity relation

  Simons, Peter

  Simple Anti-Indexicalism

  Simple Bundle Theory

  simple entity; see also atom

  simple infinite past

  Simple Intensity Theory

  simple, material see atom

  simplicity

  Simplicius

  simultaneity of causation

  simultaneity relation

  situation; see also possibility, state of affairs, world

  skepticism

  Sklar, Lawrence

  Skyrms, Brian

  small world

  Smart, J.C.C.

  social nature of language

  social norm

  Solipsism

  Solipsism of the Present Moment

  sortal dominant

  Sosa, David

  soul; see also dualism, self

  space absolute

  curvature of

  discrete

  gunky

  occupation of

  private

  quality

  substantival

  Space-Matter Correspondence

  spacetime Minkowski

  spacetime interval

  spacetime manifold

  Spacetime Substantivalism

  spacetime worm

  Spatial Aristotelianism

  spatial continguity

  Spatial Externalism

  Spatial Homogeneity

  Spatial Internalism

  spatial location

  Spatial Monism

  Spatial Particularism

  spatial point; see also point

  spatial point-parts

  Spatial Pointillism; see also Pointillism

  spatial quality

  spatial relatedness

  spatial relation

  Spatial Relationism

  Spatial Substantivalism

  spatial-cum-quantitative property

  spatiotemporal continuity

  spatiotemporal distance

  spatiotemporal distribution of qualities; see also mosaic, pattern

  spatiotemporal individuation of tropes

  spatiotemporal interrelatedness

  spatiotemporal location

  Special Causation

  Special Composition Question

  special relativity see relativity, special

  special science


  species

  specious present

  Spectral Truthmaker Theory

  speed of light

  Spinoza, Baruch

  St. Augustine see Augustine of Hippo

  staccato walk

  Stage Theory

  Stalnaker, Robert

  state of affairs inclusion

  maximal

  possible

  preclusion

  Staticism

  Statue and Lump

  Stoics

  Stoljar, Daniel

  Strawson, F.P.

  Strengthened Platonic Schema

  Strong Hypotheticalism; see also Hypotheticalism

  Strong Nomism; see also Nomism

  Strong Powerism; see also Powerism

  Strong Supplementation

  Strong Transworld Identity

  Structural Abstractionism see also Abstractionism

  Structuralism

  structuralism about science

  structuralism, causal

  structure inorganic

  metaphysical

  stuff

  Suárez, Francisco

  subject of experience

  subject-entailing property

  subjunctive conditional

  subset

  substance composite

  theories of

  see also Constituent Ontology

  see also Relational Ontology

  substance-kind

  Substance-Kind Thickening

  substantial change

  Substrate Theory

  substrate

  Substratism

  sum, mereological

  super-luminal velocity

  super-task

  super-truth

  supercutting argument

  supervaluation

  supervenience brute

  weak

  surface

  Surrogate Presentism

  symmetry

  systemic profile

  taking tense seriously

  taking things in order

  Tarski biconditional

  Tarski, Alfred

  Tarski's Schema (PTruth 2)

  Taylor, Richard

  teleportation

  Temporal Anti-Discretism

  temporal asymmetry

  Temporal Coincidence

  temporal direction

  Temporal Discretism

  temporal distance

  Temporal Finitism

  Temporal Infinitism

  temporal length see duration

  temporal measure

  temporal operator

  temporal order

  temporal part

  temporal passage

  Temporal Plenitude

  Temporal Pluralism

  temporal priority

  temporal relation earlier-than

  later-than

  temporal structure

  temporal succession

  temporal thing

  Temporalism

  temporally extended process

  temporary mereological coincidence

  tendency

  tense future

  past tense

  tense operator

  tensed copula

  tensed property

  tensed proposition

  tensed truth as indexical

  Tensism (A Theory) Aristotelian (Changing Actuality) Tensism

  arguments for

  Falling Branches (Changing Possibility) Tensism

  Growing Block Tensism

  Modal Tensism

  Serious Tensism

  Simple Tensism (Moving Spotlight Theory)

  see also Anti-Tensism

  see also Presentism

  Thales

  Thank Goodness Problem,

  The Limit of Possibles Itself Possible

  theism

  theoretical usefulness

  theory of descriptions

  Theory of Spatial Qualities

  theory, empirically adequate simple

  thick pair

  thick particular

  Thickening Principles; see also Color Thickening, Location Thickening, Shape Thickening, Substance-Kind Thickening

  thin pair

  thin particular see bare partiuclar

  thing

  thisness; see also haecceity

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thomson, James

  Thomson's Super-Lamp

  thought complex

  de re

  false

  individuation of

  past

  reflexive

  temporal

  thought-experiment

  three-valued semantics

  thusness; see also sicceity

  Tib and Tibbles

  time beginning of

  direction of

  interval of

  metaphysical

  theories of

  time travel

  time-like separation

  Time-Process Correspondence

  time-slice

  Time-Slice Substratism

  times; see also instant, moment

  token

  Tooley, Michael

  totality fact

  Totality Fact Maximalism

  tracking

  Tractarian account of possibility

  Tractarian Propositions

  Tractarian World

  Transfer Principle

  transitive verb

  transitivity of causation

  Transitivity of Identity

  transmission of quantity

  Transworld Identity

  Trogdon, Kelly

  trope modifying

  modular

  pastness

  persistence

  relational

  spatiotemporal individuation of

  Trope Bundle Theory

  Trope Connectionism

  Trope Nominalism; see also Resemblance Nominalism

  Trope Realism

  Trope Relational Ontology

  Trope Separatism

  Trope Substrate Theory

  Trope Theory

  trumping

  truth derived

  logically complex

  logically independent

  modal

  negative

  non-fundamental

  non-modal

  of a proposition

  past-tensed

  relational

  relative to a world

  simpliciter

  tensed see tensed truth

  ungrounded

  untensed

  Truth Does Not Supervene on Being

  Truth Supervenes on Being

  truth-bearer

  truth-condition

  Truth-Defined Anti-Indexicalism

  truth-value

  truth-value gap

  truthful correspondence

  truthmaker classical

  for facts about the past

  fundamental

  negative

  Truthmaker Maximalism,

  truthmaker principle

  Truthmaker Theory

  truthmaking relation

  type

  uncaused cause

  uncountable infinity

  undercutting defeater; see also defeater

  Unger, Peter

  unification

  unique actual world

  unique present moment

  uniqueness of nuclei

  Uniqueness of the Actual World

  Unitary Direct Realism

  unity of life

  unity of the person

  Universal Causation

  universal-particular distinction

  Universalism, Mereological

  universal as vehicle of thought

  divided

  first-order universal

  higher-order

  maximal structural

  relational

  simple

  structural

  uninstantiated

  world

  universe; see also cosm
os

  unmeasurable set

  Unprincipled Special Causation

  UP-Realism

  useful fiction

  vacuity

  vacuum

  vague identity

  vague property

  vagueness higher-order

  linguistic theory of

  ontic

  Value of Movement,

  value theory

  van Fraassen, Bas

  van Inwagen, Peter

  variability of color

  variably polyadic relation resemblance relation

  variation, continuous

  Varzi, Achille

  Vehicle Thesis

  Veil of Perception

  velocity infinite

  intrinsic

  maximum

  of light

  relative

  super-luminal

  velocity vector

  verb, transitive

  verbal noun phrase

  verificationism

  vicious circularity

  vicious infinite regress; see also infinite regress

  Vienna Circle

  volume

  Volume-Boundary Dualism

  Voluminism

  von Ehrenfels, Christian

  von Wright, Georg

  water

  wave

  way (as possibiliy)

  way (as property)

  Weak Principle of Contstituent Identity

  weak supervenience; see also supervenience

  Weak Supplementation

  Weatherson, Brian

  Whitehead, Alfred North

  whole constant

  wholly mental thing

  Wiggins, David

  William of Ockham

  Williams, Bernard

  Williamson, Timothy

  Wilson, Jessica

  Winnie, John

  Wise UP

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  world-universal

  Worldbound Individuals

  worldmate relation

  world branching

  centered

  chaotic

  Max-Black

  possible see possible world

  small

  Worm Theory

  worm, spacetime see spacetime worm

  Zahar, Elie

  Zalta, Edward

  Zeno of Elea

  Zeno's paradoxes

 

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