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Ideas of Anthony Quinton, by Text
[British, b.1925, At New College, Oxford University.]
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1973
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The Nature of Things
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9 'Nat'
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p.263
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The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects
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9 'Nat'
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p.263
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Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody
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9 'Nat'
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p.264
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Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones
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9 'Nat'
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p.264
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A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it
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9 'Nat'
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p.264
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Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention
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Pt I
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p.132
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An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Campbell,K]
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