Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Zoroaster, Pherecydes and Cynthia Macdonald

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

7965	Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]

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

7934	Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]

7958	Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]

7972	Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

7959	How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]

7960	Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]