Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Guide of the Perplexed', 'On the Individuation of Attributes' and 'Quaestiones de anima'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

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Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

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You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

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No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier

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One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

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Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]