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Ideas for 'Causation', 'On What There Is' and 'The Theory of Communicative Action'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

9476	If dispositions are more fundamental than causes, then they won't conceptually reduce to them [Bird on Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

1612	Realism, conceptualism and nominalism in medieval universals reappear in maths as logicism, intuitionism and formalism [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

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There is no entity called 'redness', and that some things are red is ultimate and irreducible [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

4443	Quine has argued that predicates do not have any ontological commitment [Quine, by Armstrong]