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All the ideas for ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?st1=Michael Devitt', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'On the Conservation of Force'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
22104 Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
22103 Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]
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]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
20646 Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy
20973 All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]