Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'An Argument for the Identity Theory', 'There Are No Abstract Objects' and 'On Aristotle's 'Metaphysics''

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6 ideas

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 / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

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Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism

7441	Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis]

7442	'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis]