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Ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'A Subject with No Object' and 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

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We don't say 'red' is abstract, unlike a river, just because it has discontinuous shape [Quine]

9918	Abstract/concrete is a distinction of kind, not degree [Burgess/Rosen]

9929	Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden' [Burgess/Rosen]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / b. Levels of abstraction

9927	Mathematics has ascended to higher and higher levels of abstraction [Burgess/Rosen]

9930	Abstraction is on a scale, of sets, to attributes, to type-formulas, to token-formulas [Burgess/Rosen]