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Ideas of Michael J. Loux, by Text
[American, fl. 1998, Professor at Notre Dame University, Indiana.]
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1998
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Metaphysics: contemporary introduction
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p.24
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p.24
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Universals come in hierarchies of generality
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p.34
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p.34
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4478
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Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'.
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p.56
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p.56
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Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity
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p.60
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p.60
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Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability
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p.68
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p.68
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Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive
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p.86
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p.86
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If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical
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