Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Cynthia Macdonald and Alexander Bird
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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There might be just one fundamental natural property [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
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Categorical properties are not modally fixed, but change across possible worlds [Bird]
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The categoricalist idea is that a property is only individuated by being itself [Bird]
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If we abstractly define a property, that doesn't mean some object could possess it [Bird]
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Categoricalists take properties to be quiddities, with no essential difference between them [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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To name an abundant property is either a Fregean concept, or a simple predicate [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]
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Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]
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Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]
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Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]
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