PHIL 200 Chapter : Induction
22 Apr 2012
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Enumeration: taking a whole lot of instances of the same kind. A b c d swans are all white. Elimination: sets out to eliminate other reasons for something being white or apart from being a swan (take swans from different countries). Observe people drinking at a party one takes rye and soda, scotch and soda, brandy and soda what causes drunkenness. Plato: any particulars that share certain quality in common (trangularity) participated/shared in a common universal. Like is universal everyone is able to like something, it"s shared. It will denote who is using the word. This that who is denoting the sentence is speaking about. X likes y r(x y) two term relation identity of relation (x=y) Concentrated on qualities as examples of universals, relations are just as important. A relation is a prime example of a true universal. You will always find a sentence, statement or proposition with at least one universal.
