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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Ontology of Existence

M metaphysicians are interested in trying to give the ontology of existence. It's not like our dragons real or something, but it's these sort of abstract ideas. An extended object is just an object that's extended in space-time. I would like you to tell me whether extended the symbols are real.

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