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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Nominalism and Realism' and 'A World of Propensities'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

11946

Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

4032	The problem of universals is how many particulars can all be of the same 'type' [Armstrong]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]