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Ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'Transworld Identity or worldbound Individuals?' and 'works'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

8534	Quine says the predicate of a true statement has no ontological implications [Quine, by Armstrong]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

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Quine suggests that properties can be replaced with extensional entities like sets [Quine, by Shapiro]

3322	Quine says that if second-order logic is to quantify over properties, that can be done in first-order predicate logic [Quine, by Benardete,JA]

6078	Quine brought classes into semantics to get rid of properties [Quine, by McGinn]

8479	Don't analyse 'red is a colour' as involving properties. Say 'all red things are coloured things' [Quine, by Orenstein]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

3751	Universals are acceptable if they are needed to make an accepted theory true [Quine, by Jacquette]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

7970	Quine is committed to sets, but is more a Class Nominalist than a Platonist [Quine, by Macdonald,C]