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Page 28
... concrete individuals , complexes of both position and qualities . In passing it should be noted that there is a tension , perhaps amounting to an incompatibility , between the position of recent empiricists that I have been discussing ...
... concrete individuals , complexes of both position and qualities . In passing it should be noted that there is a tension , perhaps amounting to an incompatibility , between the position of recent empiricists that I have been discussing ...
Page 31
... concrete individuals are in space and time but since that view is a tautology it hardly could be . There are two main varieties of non - concrete individual : mental entities , minds and their states , and abstract entities , univerals ...
... concrete individuals are in space and time but since that view is a tautology it hardly could be . There are two main varieties of non - concrete individual : mental entities , minds and their states , and abstract entities , univerals ...
Page 255
... concrete paraphrase is reference to mathematical entities . In its historically most distinguished form , as Plato's theory of ideas , essentialism drew much of its support from our pre - eminently certain and indisputable knowledge of ...
... concrete paraphrase is reference to mathematical entities . In its historically most distinguished form , as Plato's theory of ideas , essentialism drew much of its support from our pre - eminently certain and indisputable knowledge of ...
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