PHL357H5 Lecture 17: Lecture 17(topic 7)
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Predication is when you talk about something: eg/ this room can seat 50 people. When we say bruno (bear) is hairy, you talk about his predicate. Two ways to think of a class: collection of individuals, or a characteristics. Hull"s terminology: make a distinction b/w a bear and hairy, we can talk about classes. Bear is a mammal: we say something about the class. Hull basically says that species are individuals; he thinks that bear" is never really a predicate. Bruno is hairy on monday, but not having been trimmed on tuesday: bruno is the same individual, but his properties are not the same, it can change in relation to other things. 3 kinds of challenges: 1) individual changes by taking on characteristics- intrinsic, 2) individual changes by relation to other characteristics- extrinsic, 3, hull"s says that this isn"t true anymore so boom they"re individuals. The aristotelian picture is that individuals can change.
