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All the ideas for 'Universals', 'Events' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

9413	An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

8495	The distinction between particulars and universals is a mistake made because of language [Ramsey]

8493	We could make universals collections of particulars, or particulars collections of their qualities [Ramsey]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

8494	Obviously 'Socrates is wise' and 'Socrates has wisdom' express the same fact [Ramsey]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

13952

Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

13954

The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

13955

Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

13953

An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]