Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Donald C. Williams and Jonathan Barnes

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]