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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'Modal Logics and Philosophy'

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

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

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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.