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All the ideas for 'On the Individuation of Attributes', 'works' and 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment'

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6 ideas

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

18439

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

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

18442

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

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

18441

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

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

18440

Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

1490	You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8478	Dewey argued long before Wittgenstein that there could not seriously be a private language [Dewey, by Orenstein]