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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance' and 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

4483	If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

4481	Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]

4477	Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

4482	Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

4478	Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

4480	Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health

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The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann]

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]