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Single Idea 11094

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

Full Idea

Why not view 'red' as naming a single concrete object extended in space and time? ..To say a drop is red is to say that the one object, the drop, is a spatio-temporal part of the other, red, as a waterfall is part of a river.

Gist of Idea

'Red' is a single concrete object in space-time; 'red' and 'drop' are parts of a red drop

Source

Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 2)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.69