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'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Properties' and 'Carnap and Logical Truth'
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
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Commitment to universals is as arbitrary or pragmatic as the adoption of a new system of bookkeeping [Quine]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Deniers of properties and relations rely on either predicates or on classes [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Resemblances must be in certain 'respects', and they seem awfully like properties [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Change of temperature in objects is quite independent of the predicates 'hot' and 'cold' [Armstrong]
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We want to know what constituents of objects are grounds for the application of predicates [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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In most sets there is no property common to all the members [Armstrong]
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