Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Theodore Sider and Adam Swift

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
13683 A relation is a feature of multiple objects taken together [Sider]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
14978 A property is intrinsic if an object alone in the world can instantiate it [Sider]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
14194 Proper ontology should only use categorical (actual) properties, not hypothetical ones [Sider]
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]
14995 Predicates can be 'sparse' if there is a universal, or if there is a natural property or relation [Sider]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional
12613 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]