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All the ideas for 'The Nature of Things', 'What's Wrong with Rape?' and 'Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis'

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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
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 / 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]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction
20653 Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality
20887 A rape disregards the status of being a person - but so does all assault [Foa]
20888 Rape of children is dreadful, but no one thinks children should have a right of consent [Foa]
20889 If men should lust and women shouldn't, that makes rape the prevalent sexual model [Foa]