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All the ideas for 'Universals and Particulars', 'Henry V' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication

4442	Most thinkers now reject self-predication (whiteness is NOT white) so there is no Third Man problem [Armstrong]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

23565

Our obedience to the king erases any crimes we commit for him [Shakespeare]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

17371

Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

17372

The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]

17373

Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]