Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Immanuel Kant, Keith Campbell and Stephen Schiffer

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8513	Two red cloths are separate instances of redness, because you can dye one of them blue [Campbell,K]

8514	Red could only recur in a variety of objects if it was many, which makes them particulars [Campbell,K]

8522	Tropes solve the Companionship Difficulty, since the resemblance is only between abstract particulars [Campbell,K]

8523	Tropes solve the Imperfect Community problem, as they can only resemble in one respect [Campbell,K]

8524	Trope theory makes space central to reality, as tropes must have a shape and size [Campbell,K]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

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Kant claims causal powers are relational rather than intrinsic [Kant, by Bayne]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

8521	Nominalism has the problem that without humans nothing would resemble anything else [Campbell,K]