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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Substance is not a universal, as the former is particular but a universal is shared [Aristotle]
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Universals are indeterminate and only known in potential, because they are general [Aristotle, by Witt]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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649
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The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle]
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223
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
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No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle]
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211
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them [Aristotle]
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If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating? [Aristotle]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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647
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There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle]
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217
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves [Aristotle]
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618
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There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement [Aristotle]
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642
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What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities? [Aristotle]
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645
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If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled [Aristotle]
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605
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The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement [Aristotle]
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640
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All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any [Aristotle]
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641
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Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things? [Aristotle]
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If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities [Aristotle]
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Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status [Aristotle, by Moreland]
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