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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 Ref
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.72
11094 | 'Red' is a single concrete object in space-time; 'red' and 'drop' are parts of a red drop [Quine] |
11097 | Red is the largest red thing in the universe [Quine] |
4437 | 'Mereological Nominalism' sees whiteness as a huge white object consisting of all the white things [Armstrong] |
4438 | 'Mereological Nominalism' may work for whiteness, but it doesn't seem to work for squareness [Armstrong] |
10173 | A nominalist might avoid abstract objects by just appealing to mereological sums [Reck/Price] |