Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Elements of Being: I', 'De Re Aedificatoria' and 'The Approach to Metaphysics'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

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The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added [Alberti]