Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Pierre Gassendi, Jonathan Wolff and Donald C. Williams

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi]

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If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi]

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

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]