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All the ideas for 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction' and 'True to the Facts'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

8188	Davidson takes truth to attach to individual sentences [Davidson, by Dummett]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19393

What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 5. Universals as Concepts

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Universals are not objects of sense and cannot be imagined - but can be conceived [Reid]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

23650

Only individuals exist [Reid]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

23649

No one thinks two sheets possess a single whiteness, but all agree they are both white [Reid]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

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Real identity admits of no degrees [Reid]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

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We must first conceive things before we can consider them [Reid]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

23648

First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid]