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Ontology and Abstracta
Jan 27, Jan 29
Tuesday Topic
This week our focus will be on ontology and abstracta. We'll build our own ontology in class, including as many categories as we can. We'll then explain and utilize elimination, reduction, and supervenience, to shorten our ontology and to show how different categories may be connected. Finally, we'll look at debates about how to distinguish abstracta from concretia, and we'll discuss options for how to categorize properties.
This Week's Readings
Required Readings:
None
This is your final week with no readings! I recommend you use this time to explore literature on your senior thesis topics!
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