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'Parmenides', 'Problems of Philosophy' and 'Moral Relativism'
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
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Because we depend on correspondence, we know relations better than we know the items that relate [Russell]
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That Edinburgh is north of London is a non-mental fact, so relations are independent universals [Russell]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Every complete sentence must contain at least one word (a verb) which stands for a universal [Russell]
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Propositions express relations (prepositions and verbs) as well as properties (nouns and adjectives) [Russell]
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Confused views of reality result from thinking that only nouns and adjectives represent universals [Russell]
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All universals are like the relation "is north of", in having no physical location at all [Russell, by Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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Every sentence contains at least one word denoting a universal, so we need universals to know truth [Russell]
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Russell claims that universals are needed to explain a priori knowledge (as their relations) [Russell, by Mellor/Oliver]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals
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Normal existence is in time, so we must say that universals 'subsist' [Russell]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 5. Universals as Concepts
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If we identify whiteness with a thought, we can never think of it twice; whiteness is the object of a thought [Russell]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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'Resemblance Nominalism' won't work, because the theory treats resemblance itself as a universal [Russell]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism
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If we consider whiteness to be merely a mental 'idea', we rob it of its universality [Russell]
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