Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Nature of Things', 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' and 'Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics'

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8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets

9406	A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties

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The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton]

9407	Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals

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Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones [Quinton]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

8520	An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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Maybe final value rests on the extrinsic property of being valued by a rational agent [Korsgaard, by Orsi]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

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When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]