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“I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.”

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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, born on August 7, 1969, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. more

“There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.”

Giving Mean Different Problem Certain Effects Particular Commitment Red Rose Interpretation Propositions Different Interpretations Roses Are Red

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.”

Virtue Conditions Sufficient Entity Propositions

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.”

Differences Class Accounts Former Latter Propositions Resemblance

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.”

Shows Community Class Property Sufficient Imperfect Resemblance

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.”

World Facts Challenges Discourse Grounded Describing

Author:Richard Marshall

“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.”

Humans Philosophy Beautiful Violence Figures Genius Destruction Criminals Construction Sublime Murderer Monstrous Misreading

Author:Richard Marshall

“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”

Thinking Way Mean Wanted Desire Responsibility Principles Limits Asking Agency Ethical Taking Responsibility Subjectivity Foreground Ethical Principles

Author:Richard Marshall

“I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".”

Thinking Way Moral Morality Ethics Code Inherent Conservatism

Author:Richard Marshall

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

Care Next Justice

Book:Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor

Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

Source: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works

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