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  3. From: PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,sci.logic
  5. Subject: Re: No Reification Here
  6. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:19:50 EST
  7. Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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  14. >From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
  15. >Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:23:14 GMT
  16. >
  17. >Well -- this sort of thinking tends to commit you to some sort of
  18. >Aristotelian realism, if not worse, and some of us would like to keep
  19. >nominalism as a live option; recall your own earlier (possibly
  20. >disdainful?) reference to "tropes".
  21.  
  22. Um.
  23. Which sort of thinking??
  24. I don't even know what Aristotelian realism *is*. Maybe I *am*
  25. committed to it. I doubt it, though.
  26.  
  27. I do recall my reference to tropes. It wasn't the slightest
  28. bit disdainful.
  29.  
  30. I believe in everything.
  31.  
  32. >So, properties if necessary, but not necessarily properties, as our
  33. >great, mad, former (and now possibly dead) Prime Minister might have
  34. >put it.
  35.  
  36. Heavens. When are we gonna get one of them metaphysician heads
  37. of state?
  38.  
  39. Jamie
  40.