Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Alexander, Eucleides and Jerry A. Fodor

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

2469	The world is full of messy small things producing stable large-scale properties (e.g. mountains) [Fodor]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

7014	A particle and a coin heads-or-tails pick out to perfectly well-defined predicates and properties [Fodor]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

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Empiricists use dispositions reductively, as 'possibility of sensation' or 'possibility of experimental result' [Fodor]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

2475	Don't define something by a good instance of it; a good example is a special case of the ordinary example [Fodor]