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Single Idea 223
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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Full Idea
If a person denies that the idea of each thing is always the same, he will utterly destroy the power of carrying on discussion.
Gist of Idea
If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion
Source
Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 135c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.229
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[things which only universals seem to explain]:
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223
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion
[Plato]
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227
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name
[Plato]
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153
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It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions
[Plato]
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2142
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The plurality of beautiful things must belong to a single class, because they have a single particular character
[Plato]
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649
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The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals
[Aristotle]
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1675
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Separate Forms aren't needed for logic, but universals (one holding of many) are essential
[Aristotle]
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21710
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We know a universal in 'yellow differs from blue' or 'yellow resembles blue less than green does'
[Russell]
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4030
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Russell claims that universals are needed to explain a priori knowledge (as their relations)
[Russell, by Mellor/Oliver]
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4427
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Every sentence contains at least one word denoting a universal, so we need universals to know truth
[Russell]
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3751
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Universals are acceptable if they are needed to make an accepted theory true
[Quine, by Jacquette]
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4032
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The problem of universals is how many particulars can all be of the same 'type'
[Armstrong]
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8539
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Universals are required to give a satisfactory account of the laws of nature
[Armstrong]
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10729
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Universals explain resemblance and causal power
[Armstrong, by Oliver]
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17669
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Realist regularity theories of laws need universals, to pick out the same phenomena
[Armstrong]
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9485
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Universals concern how things are, and how they could be
[Shoemaker, by Bird]
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8566
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We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity
[Mellor]
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15436
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Universals are meant to give an account of resemblance
[Lewis]
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21961
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Physics aims to discover which universals actually exist
[Lewis, by Moore,AW]
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7034
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Universals explain one-over-many relations, and similar qualities, and similar behaviour
[Heil]
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8293
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Real universals are needed to explain laws of nature
[Lowe]
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4450
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The traditional problem of universals centres on the "One over Many", which is the unity of natural classes
[Moreland]
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4449
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Evidence for universals can be found in language, communication, natural laws, classification and ideals
[Moreland]
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16260
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Existence of universals may just be decided by acceptance, or not, of second-order logic
[Maudlin]
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7951
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Numerical sameness is explained by theories of identity, but what explains qualitative identity?
[Macdonald,C]
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22134
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Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately?
[Boulter]
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