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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'On Aristotle's 'Metaphysics'' and 'Neutral Relations'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

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Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]