Talk:coinstantiation

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Request for anyone with paywall access to check the obvious syntax error

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Regarding the quote, "The determinablist has to hold that natural determinates drawn from mathematically and mereologically independent determinables are always be capable of coinstantiation." Was the obvious syntax error in the original too, or was it just mistyped here? The paywall prevents me from checking the original. If the error was present in the original, then perhaps replace this citation with a better one when any of us gets a chance. "The determinablist has to hold that Xs drawn from Ys are always be capable of Z." I made the error more obvious still since someone said they couldn't see it. Although it is obvious enough that what was meant was either "are always capable" or "will always be capable" and the authors or editors merely failed to change the one to the other correctly, it's still a low-quality example because of the carelessness. Best to just replace it with a non-lazily edited one, as it deserves that replacement. Quercus solaris (talk) 05:04, 15 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

In spending time to replace the quote with a better example, I purposely skipped over examples from the philosophy literature that are just gobbledygook to most humans (i.e., anyone who is not a philosophy grad/postgrad/doc/postdoc, but in reality probably some of them too). I found a good one and added it. Quercus solaris (talk) 19:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply