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All the ideas for 'On the Individuation of Attributes', ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?' and 'works'

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8 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 / D. Universals / 1. Universals

8502	Realism doesn't explain 'a is F' any further by saying it is 'a has F-ness' [Devitt]

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

8503	The particular/universal distinction is unhelpful clutter; we should accept 'a is F' as basic [Devitt]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

8501	Quineans take predication about objects as basic, not reference to properties they may have [Devitt]

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

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Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 8. Socialism

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Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is brutality [Bakunin]