Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'talk', 'Commentary on Sentences' and 'The Nature of Things'

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9 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets

9406	A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

9916	Convention, yes! Arbitrary, no! [Poincaré, by Putnam]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

15730

Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties

15728

The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton]

9407	Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16643

Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals

15729

Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones [Quinton]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

8520	An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]