Fine, Kit

"Reality exhibits both necessity and contingency in their proper measures."

"The study of universals is the study of how one can be many and many be one."

"Abstract and concrete are not separate realms but different ways of being."

"The nature of properties determines what can be said truly about the world."

"To know something is to know its essential features and their relations."

"The problem of composition reveals the depth of ordinary ontology."

"Possibility grounds reality in ways that merit the most careful analysis."

"The metaphysician's humility lies in recognizing when intuition must yield to argument."

"Objects have boundaries that are as real as the objects themselves."

"What appears is often misleading about what truly is."

"The structure of thought mirrors the structure of being."

"Identity conditions are not arbitrary but flow from the nature of things."

"To deny properties is to make the world fundamentally unintelligible."

"Universals provide the only adequate account of genuine resemblance."

"The question of what binds properties together in an object is not answered by mere stipulation."

"Time reveals the insufficiency of timeless logic for understanding change."

"The metaphysician must be willing to revise intuitions for the sake of consistency."

"Being itself is what all true statements correspond to."

"The nature of a thing is what explains its behavior and properties."

"Abstract objects are no more or less mysterious than space and time."

"To understand relations is to understand how the world holds together."

"Necessity cannot be reduced to mere uniformity or convention."

"The boundaries between different kinds of being are often not where we initially suppose."

"What something is determines what it can do and undergo."

"The logic of identity is not the logic of equivalence."

"Reality contains both what must be and what might have been."

"The study of essences is the study of what makes things what they are."

"Universals are not added to particulars but constitute their very being."

"The metaphysician seeks not novelty but clarity about the eternal structure of being."

"What we call properties are the ways things genuinely are."