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All the ideas for 'Particulars in Particular Clothing', 'The Philosophical Culture' and 'Real Natures and Familiar Objects'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

13795

Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

18431

Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

13798

Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

13797

The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

13794

Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder]

13796

Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder]