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Single Idea 16665
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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Full Idea
Beyond the entities there are certain real 'modes', which are positive, and in their own right act on those entities, giving them something that is outside their whole essence as individuals existing in reality.
Gist of Idea
There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence
Source
Francisco Suárez (Disputationes metaphysicae [1597], 7.1.17), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 13.3
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.255
A Reaction
Suárez is apparently the first person to formulate a proper account of properties as 'modes' of a thing, rather than as accidents which are separate, or are wholly integrated into a thing. A typical compromise proposal in philosophy. Can modes act?
The
16 ideas
from 'Disputationes metaphysicae'
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16667
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Substances are incomplete unless they have modes
[Suárez, by Pasnau]
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17007
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Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity
[Suárez]
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16780
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Partial forms of leaf and fruit are united in the whole form of the tree
[Suárez]
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16758
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The best support for substantial forms is the co-ordinated unity of a natural being
[Suárez]
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16682
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Other things could occupy the same location as an angel
[Suárez]
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16743
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We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension
[Suárez]
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16742
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We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence
[Suárez]
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16665
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There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence
[Suárez]
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16666
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A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it
[Suárez]
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22143
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Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22144
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Real Essential distinction: A and B are of different natural kinds
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22146
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Minor Real distinction: B needs A, but A doesn't need B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22145
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Major Real distinction: A and B have independent existences
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22147
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Conceptual/Mental distinction: one thing can be conceived of in two different ways
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22148
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Modal distinction: A isn't B or its property, but still needs B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22149
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Scholastics assess possibility by what has actually happened in reality
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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