Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Aristotle, Allan Gibbard and Deborah Achtenberg

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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
11379 Substance is not a universal, as the former is particular but a universal is shared [Aristotle]
12096 Universals are indeterminate and only known in potential, because they are general [Aristotle, by Witt]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
1675 Separate Forms aren't needed for logic, but universals (one holding of many) are essential [Aristotle]
649 The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
11037 Colour must be in an individual body, or it is not embodied [Aristotle]
12094 No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
10948 Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
633 If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them [Aristotle]
16110 If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating? [Aristotle]
647 There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [Aristotle]
643 How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
9483 Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
27 Eternal white is no whiter than temporary white, and it is the same with goodness [Aristotle]
5130 It is meaningless to speak of 'man-himself', because it has the same definition as plain 'man' [Aristotle]
16108 If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities [Aristotle]
4470 Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status [Aristotle, by Moreland]
16145 Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves [Aristotle]
641 Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things? [Aristotle]
605 The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement [Aristotle]
642 What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities? [Aristotle]
645 If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled [Aristotle]
28 How will a vision of pure goodness make someone a better doctor? [Aristotle]
618 There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement [Aristotle]
640 All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any [Aristotle]
1677 We can forget the Forms, as they are irrelevant, and not needed in giving demonstrations [Aristotle]