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Ideas for 'works', 'Representative Government' and 'The Universe as We Find It'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
The subject-predicate form reflects reality [Heil]
     Full Idea: I like to think that the subject-predicate form reflects a fundamental division in reality.
     From: John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 10.1)
     A reaction: That is, he defends the idea that there are substances, and powerful qualities pertaining to those substances. I sympathise, but this slogan makes it too simple.
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths
The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
     Full Idea: The notion of analytic truth is conspicuously absent in Aristotle.
     From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.5
     A reaction: Cf. Idea 11239.