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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'' and 'Deriving Kripkean Claims with Abstract Objects'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

17945

Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

17946

Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

10558

Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

17944

'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

10557

Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]