Combining Philosophers

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

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

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

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]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

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

15194

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