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Single Idea 16669
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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Full Idea
It is absolutely necessary that everything in the world be either a being or a mode [maničre] of a being.
Gist of Idea
Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being
Source
Nicolas Malebranche (The Search After Truth [1675], III.2.8.ii), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 13.4
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.260
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[properties as simply ways of existing]:
10947
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Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal
[Aristotle]
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16644
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The features of a thing (whether quality or quantity) are inseparable from their subjects
[Aristotle]
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14044
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The perceived accidental properties of bodies cannot be conceived of as independent natures
[Epicurus]
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14045
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Accidental properties give a body its nature, but are not themselves bodies or parts of bodies
[Epicurus]
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16645
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Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being)
[Henry of Ghent]
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16643
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Accidents always remain suited to a subject
[Bonaventura]
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11201
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Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject
[Aquinas]
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16641
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Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white
[Aquinas]
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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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16668
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Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances
[Gassendi]
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16730
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If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes
[Gassendi]
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16670
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Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies
[Hobbes]
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17171
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A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance
[Spinoza]
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16669
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Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being
[Malebranche]
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18353
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Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals
[Lowe]
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16662
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The biggest question for scholastics is whether properties are real, or modes of substances
[Pasnau]
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