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Article #727Re: No Reification Here
From: Jamie
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:19
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:19
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>From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) >Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:23:14 GMT > >Well -- this sort of thinking tends to commit you to some sort of >Aristotelian realism, if not worse, and some of us would like to keep >nominalism as a live option; recall your own earlier (possibly >disdainful?) reference to "tropes". Um. Which sort of thinking?? I don't even know what Aristotelian realism *is*. Maybe I *am* committed to it. I doubt it, though. I do recall my reference to tropes. It wasn't the slightest bit disdainful. I believe in everything. >So, properties if necessary, but not necessarily properties, as our >great, mad, former (and now possibly dead) Prime Minister might have >put it. Heavens. When are we gonna get one of them metaphysician heads of state? Jamie
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