Lexicon of Arguments

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III 79/80
Quasi-universals/particulars/Armstrong: you could say, "true" particulars do not have temporal parts - then it is necessary to introduce properties that have a time index: Quasi-U -> partic. without temporal parts: continuant. >Continuants.
III 100
Def Quasi-Universals/Armstrong: e.g. fruit in >Smith's garden: apple or banana, then elephant or cherry then nothing ... or ... - must be introduced so that laws of nature can remain relations between universals.
Def Quasi-universal/Armstrong: a quasi-universal is no universal because of reference to individual cases. - It is no particular because it is repeatable. - We need a law for quasi-universals. - Quasi-universals would satify Aristotle s "predicable of many things."

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