Single Idea 11097

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 6. Mereological Nominalism]

Full Idea

Red is the largest red thing in the universe - the scattered total thing whose parts are all the red things.

Gist of Idea

Red is the largest red thing in the universe

Source

Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 3)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.72

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