Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Goodman,N/Quine,W and Jonathan Schaffer
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
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The world is full of messy small things producing stable large-scale properties (e.g. mountains) [Fodor]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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A particle and a coin heads-or-tails pick out to perfectly well-defined predicates and properties [Fodor]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are the same as events [Schaffer,J]
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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]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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Don't define something by a good instance of it; a good example is a special case of the ordinary example [Fodor]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]
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