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Ideas for Anaximander, Ruth Barcan Marcus and Andrew Shorten

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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
Nominalists say predication is relations between individuals, or deny that it refers [Marcus (Barcan)]
     Full Idea: Nominalists have the major task of explaining how predicates work. They usually construct it as a relation between individuals, or deny the referential function of predicates.
     From: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.163)