Lexicon of Arguments

 

I, 43f
Tropics: individual properties as basic building blocks of reality - then no accidentals but substances.
>Accidens, >Substance.
Vs: linguistic determinations surpassed, "revisionary" ontology: must depict language as irrelevant.
>Ontology.
I 45
Group individual: e.g. "the first three chancellors" - constituents: all possible combinations - but: Adenauer's head part of Adenauer, but not a (constitutive) part of the group.
>Constitution, >Mereology, cf. >Sets, >Set Theory,
>Comprehension.
I 56f
Def INDIVIDUAL/Meixner: individual-like objects: Example "the round square", but also e.g., Sherlock Holmes, fictitious persons and their parts of the body, of which it cannot be said whether they have certain properties or not - "the man who knew that he knew nothing": not Socrates, but INDIVIDUAL (overdetermined: knowledge/ignorance).
>Fiction, >Knowledge, >Predication, >Attribution,
>Individuals/Meixner.
I 56
Def (initial property-wise) complete: e.g. numbers: we cannot say that they smile or do not smile.
>Numbers, >Nonsensical.
I 57
Def initial property-wise maximally consistent/Meixner: entities that are ee ee complete and not ee overdetermined - Def maximally consistent/Wessel: (external): a set of formulas that are consistent and no further consistent formulas exist. That is, that any addition of another formula makes the set inconsistent.
>Overdetermination, >Consistency, >Properties/Meixner.
Def maximally consistent/Meixner: of every individual property, the INDIVIDUAL contains either that one itself or its negation.
>Continuous determination/Kant.