I 72
Disposition: stimulus is here no single event, but universal. Not two similar ones, but repetition of the same.
Universal: the same, not two of a kind! ->
Disposition and subjunctive make universals indispensable.
Unrealized entities: universals - not individual things. (otherwise we would need infinite classes of duplicates). >
Possible worlds/Quine, >
counterparts.
I 102
Goodman: "Rabbitness": is a discontinuous space-time segment, which consists of rabbits.
I 286
Intensional abstraction: "dogness", "cake baking", "erring".
I 332
Sentence = universal - Value of the variable: Proposition (object) - remains intact even after singular term - Proposition resists change of the truth value - Proposition remains nameless in "x0p".
I 414
Object: accept that what singular terms denotes as values - (But singular term eliminated!) - E.g. "glimmer", but not "glimmeriness".
I 423
Unrealized possibilities: the various possible hotels at the corner: no identity by position! - At most as universals.
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II 220
Universals/Quine: must be included in ontology: E.g. some zoological species are mutually fertile - Frege’s ancestors - Kaplan: "Some critics admire nobody but each other".
Numbers, functions (also in physics).
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VII (a) 10ff
Universals/Names/Quine: tradition cannot argue that predicates such as "red" would have to be the name of universals: being a name is much more special than having a meaning - "Pegasizes" is not an attribute (Universal) but a predicate (term).
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VII (d) 73
Universals/Quine: E.g. "Red": is the biggest red thing in the universe - even if it is distributed - E.g. income groups: each is a thing distributed in space and time which consists of various stages of different people - problem: distinction between spatio-temporal and conceptual distribution: E.g. graphic figure can be interpreted as consisting of more or less numerous triangles or squares - that is why universals are no concrete facts.
VII (d) 75
Universals/Quine: must be accepted as abstract entities, because names must always be substitutable (Frege, substitution principle).
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VII (f) 117
Universals/Quine: a theory which deals only with objects can be rephrased in a way that it refers to universals - E.g. length of bodies instead of bodies - e.g. concrete: Inscription - abstract: notational form.