Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Roger Scruton and Peter Abelard

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

3906	If possible worlds are needed to define properties, maybe we should abandon properties [Scruton]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

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If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P]

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Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

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Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio]