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Single Idea 7935
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Full Idea
Aristotle held that there could be no uninstantiated properties.
Gist of Idea
There cannot be uninstantiated properties
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], Bk 04) by Cynthia Macdonald - Varieties of Things
Book Ref
Macdonald,Cynthia: 'Varieties of Things' [Blackwell 2005], p.89
A Reaction
This is obviously a right hook aimed at Plato. Clearly we can think about uninstantiated properties, but the literal truth of Aristotle's view I would take to be tautological. To exist is to be instantiated.
The
35 ideas
with the same theme
[what we should take a property to be]:
7935
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There cannot be uninstantiated properties
[Aristotle, by Macdonald,C]
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16161
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Properties are just the ways in which forms are realised at various times
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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15109
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The 'propriae' or 'necessary accidents' of a thing are separate, and derived from the essence
[Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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12282
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An individual property has to exist (in past, present or future)
[Aristotle]
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16648
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Accidents must have formal being, if they are principles of real action, and of mental action and thought
[Duns Scotus]
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23227
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Each object has a precise number of properties, each to a precise degree
[Fichte]
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10606
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Frege treats properties as a kind of function, and maybe a property is its characteristic function
[Frege, by Smith,P]
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8461
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The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes
[Quine]
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15827
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Some properties, such as 'being a widow', can be seen as 'rooted outside the time they are had'
[Chisholm]
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15830
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Some properties can never be had, like being a round square
[Chisholm]
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7024
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Properties are universals, which are always instantiated
[Armstrong, by Heil]
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17679
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All instances of some property are strictly identical
[Armstrong]
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15550
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Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time
[Armstrong, by Lewis]
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13584
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The extension of a property is a contingent fact, so cannot be the essence of the property
[Ellis]
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15095
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A property's causal features are essential, and only they fix its identity
[Shoemaker]
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15097
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I claim that a property has its causal features in all possible worlds
[Shoemaker]
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15092
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Formerly I said properties are individuated by essential causal powers and causing instantiation
[Shoemaker, by Shoemaker]
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6993
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Redness is a property, but only as a presentation to normal humans
[Jackson]
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16443
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Properties are modal, involving possible situations where they are exemplified
[Stalnaker]
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15751
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Surely 'slept in by Washington' is a property of some bed?
[Lewis]
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15735
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Properties don't have degree; they are determinate, and things have varying relations to them
[Lewis]
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9656
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The 'abundant' properties are just any bizarre property you fancy
[Lewis]
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8571
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Universals are wholly present in their instances, whereas properties are spread around
[Lewis]
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9295
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Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them
[Teichmann]
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11915
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If atomism is true, then all properties derive from ultimate properties
[Molnar]
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10719
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There are four conditions defining the relations between particulars and properties
[Oliver]
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10721
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If properties are sui generis, are they abstract or concrete?
[Oliver]
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14595
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Can properties exemplify other properties?
[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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10416
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Can properties have parts?
[Swoyer]
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16230
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Maybe the only properties are basic ones like charge, mass and spin
[Hawley]
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17989
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Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them
[Hofweber]
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13795
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Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries
[Elder]
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23708
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Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye, by PG]
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23709
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Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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