Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, Jenny Teichmann and Roderick Chisholm

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

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Some properties can never be had, like being a round square [Chisholm]

9295	Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann]

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Some properties, such as 'being a widow', can be seen as 'rooted outside the time they are had' [Chisholm]

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

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If some dogs are brown, that entails the properties of 'being brown' and 'being canine' [Chisholm]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

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Treating predicates as sets drops the predicate for a new predicate 'is a member of', which is no help [Davidson]