Combining Philosophers

Ideas for John Buridan, J Baggini / PS Fosl and John Heil

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
18510 We need properties to explain how the world works [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
4603 Functionalists in Fodor's camp usually say that a genuine property is one that figures in some causal laws [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
4617 A stone does not possess the property of being a stone; its other properties make it a stone [Heil]
18522 Categorical properties were introduced by philosophers as actual properties, not if-then properties [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
4615 Complex properties are not new properties, they are merely new combinations of properties [Heil]
18513 Emergent properties will need emergent substances to bear them [Heil]
4612 Complex properties are just arrangements of simple properties; they do not "emerge" as separate [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities
7007 I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
18540 Predicates only match properties at the level of fundamentals [Heil]
4587 From the property predicates P and Q, we can get 'P or Q', but it doesn't have to designate another property [Heil]
7015 A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]
18533 In Fa, F may not be a property of a, but a determinable, satisfied by some determinate [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
18511 Properties have causal roles which sets can't possibly have [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
7042 A theory of universals says similarity is identity of parts; for modes, similarity is primitive [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
4611 The supporters of 'tropes' treat objects as bundles of tropes, when I think objects 'possess' properties [Heil]