PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nominalism, Essentialism
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Active and passive motions combine to generate perception. Has to be active and passive motion relation to cause perception. Everyone"s active motion is different therefore perception is different. Slow motions appear to be stagnant but nothing is stagnant in this world everything is constantly moving. When there is an interaction of motions. Substantial something"s essence, receives predicates persists through change. Accidental things that try to predicate what substance is a nonessential quality. Nominalism the position that kind or universals are only names and don"t refer to anything real no actual referent in reality.
