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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

16639	Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]
	Full Idea: Nothing truly exists in nature beyond individual bodies.
	From: Francis Bacon (The New Organon [1620]), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 182
	A reaction: [Unusually, Pasnau gives no reference in the text; possibly II:1-2] What this leaves out, from even an auster nominalist ontology, is undifferentiated stuff like water. Even electrons don't seem quite distinct from one another.