Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Cynthia Macdonald, Bernard Linsky and Thomas Hobbes
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies [Hobbes]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
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Construct properties as sets of objects, or say an object must be in the set to have the property [Linsky,B]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Accidents are not parts of bodies (like blood in a cloth); they have accidents as things have a size [Hobbes]
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Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]
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Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]
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Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]
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Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]
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