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All the ideas for 'The Nature of Things', 'talk' and 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

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 / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

16045

General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K]

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

15730

Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton]

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

15728

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 / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

14327

Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford]

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

15729

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]