PHI-10 Lecture 16: Phi-10 - Day 16
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This is what makes the science real- e. g. physics and biology. The formal distinction collapses into a mere distinction of reason. It is irrelevant to real science whether the terms of the known proposition are things outside the soul or are only in the soul, provided they stand and supposit for the external things themselves. Hence one does not have to posit any such universal things really distinct from singular things to account for real science (pg 138) He agrees that science is of the universal and not of the individual (doesn"t concern this or that, it concerns them all) So these universal concepts are terms in mental propositions in a language of thought. Term = the non-logical parts of a proposition. Supposition (suppositum) = roughly the denotation of a term or the things to which the term applies. Socrates is a human socrates and human are terms. A term supposits for the thing it denotes or applies to.
