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- From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
- Subject: Re: No Reification Here
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:23:14 GMT
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- 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".
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- So, properties if necessary, but not necessarily properties, as our
- great, mad, former (and now possibly dead) Prime Minister might have
- put it.
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