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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'fragments/reports' and ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
8502 Realism doesn't explain 'a is F' any further by saying it is 'a has F-ness' [Devitt]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
8503 The particular/universal distinction is unhelpful clutter; we should accept 'a is F' as basic [Devitt]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
8501 Quineans take predication about objects as basic, not reference to properties they may have [Devitt]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
467 A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology
651 Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle]