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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'works' and 'Non-Monotonic Logic'

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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
11379 Substance is not a universal, as the former is particular but a universal is shared [Aristotle]
12096 Universals are indeterminate and only known in potential, because they are general [Aristotle, by Witt]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
649 The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
12094 No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
3039 When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
10948 Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle]
17948 Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas]
20906 Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
633 If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them [Aristotle]
16110 If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating? [Aristotle]
647 There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [Aristotle]
643 How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle]
556 If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
563 If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato]
9483 Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
640 All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any [Aristotle]
641 Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things? [Aristotle]
16108 If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities [Aristotle]
4470 Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status [Aristotle, by Moreland]
565 The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato]
16145 Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves [Aristotle]
618 There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement [Aristotle]
642 What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities? [Aristotle]
645 If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled [Aristotle]
557 A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle on Plato]
605 The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement [Aristotle]