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Single Idea 14595
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Full Idea
Can properties themselves exemplify properties?
Gist of Idea
Can properties exemplify other properties?
Source
Chris Swoyer (Abstract Entities [2008], 3)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics', ed/tr. Sider/Hawthorne/Zimmerman [Blackwell 2008], p.24
A Reaction
Since I espouse a rather strict causal view of true properties, and lump the rest into the category of 'predicates', I am inclined to answer 'no' to this. Most people would disagree. 'Bright red' seems to be an example. But it isn't.
The
23 ideas
from Chris Swoyer
14592
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Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space)
[Swoyer]
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14593
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Quantum field theory suggests that there are, fundamentally, no individual things
[Swoyer]
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14595
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Can properties exemplify other properties?
[Swoyer]
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14594
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Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing
[Swoyer]
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10399
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If a property such as self-identity can only be in one thing, it can't be a universal
[Swoyer]
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10400
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Conceptualism says words like 'honesty' refer to concepts, not to properties
[Swoyer]
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10401
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The F and G of logic cover a huge range of natural language combinations
[Swoyer]
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10403
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If properties are abstract objects, then their being abstract exemplifies being abstract
[Swoyer]
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10402
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Various attempts are made to evade universals being wholly present in different places
[Swoyer]
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10404
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Extreme empiricists can hardly explain anything
[Swoyer]
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10405
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In the iterative conception of sets, they form a natural hierarchy
[Swoyer]
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10406
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One might hope to reduce possible worlds to properties
[Swoyer]
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10408
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Intensions are functions which map possible worlds to sets of things denoted by an expression
[Swoyer]
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10409
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Research suggests that concepts rely on typical examples
[Swoyer]
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10407
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Logical Form explains differing logical behaviour of similar sentences
[Swoyer]
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10410
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Anti-realists can't explain different methods to measure distance
[Swoyer]
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10412
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If laws are mere regularities, they give no grounds for future prediction
[Swoyer]
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10411
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Two properties can have one power, and one property can have two powers
[Swoyer]
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10413
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The best-known candidate for an identity condition for properties is necessary coextensiveness
[Swoyer]
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10416
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Can properties have parts?
[Swoyer]
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10417
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There are only first-order properties ('red'), and none of higher-order ('coloured')
[Swoyer]
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10421
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Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic
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10420
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Maybe a proposition is just a property with all its places filled
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