Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Donald C. Williams and Quentin Smith

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5 ideas

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

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time

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Time, as it appears in standard modern science, is bad verificationist metaphysics [Smith,Q, by Le Poidevin]