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Ideas of Anthony Quinton, by Text

[British, b.1925, At New College, Oxford University.]

1973	The Nature of Things

9 'Nat'

p.263

9407

Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody

9 'Nat'

p.263

15728

The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects

9 'Nat'

p.264

15729

Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones

9 'Nat'

p.264

9406

A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it

9 'Nat'

p.264

15730

Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention

Pt I

p.132

8520

An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Campbell,K]