[Inquiry] Doctrine Of Individuals -- Commentary

[Jon Awbrey]

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DOI.  Commentary Note 1

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A genuine appreciation of what Peirce has to say about
identity, indices, names, proper or otherwise, and the
ostensible distinctions between individual, particular,
and general terms will have to deal with what he wrote
in the 1870 LOR about the "doctrine of individuals":

   DOI 1.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-January/002320.html

Notice that this statement, together with the maxims:

   1.  "Whatever has comprehension must be general"

   2.  "Whatever has extension must be composite"

pull the rug -- and all of the elephants -- out from under
the nominal thinker's wishful thinking to find ontological
security in individual names, which nominal thinker always
confuses with the names of individuals, to recoin a phrase.

Jon Awbrey

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