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16652 | Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau] |
Full Idea: The Stoics proposed a rather modest categorisation of Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation. | |
From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 12.1 |
11096 | Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree [Quine] |
Full Idea: Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree. | |
From: Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 2) | |
A reaction: I pick this out because I think it is important. There is a continually shifting domain in any conversation ('what we are talking about'), and speech cannot be understand if the shifting domain or department has not been grasped. |