Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Anthony Quinton and Bertrand Russell

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties

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The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton]

9407	Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

9127	Russell refuted Frege's principle that there is a set for each property [Russell, by Sorensen]

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When we attribute a common quality to a group, we can forget the quality and just talk of the group [Russell]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

6063	Russell can't attribute existence to properties [McGinn on Russell]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

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Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford]