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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Real Natures and Familiar Objects' and 'Comment on Armstrong and Forrest'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

13795	Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder]
	Full Idea: The very being, the identity, of any property consists at least in part in its contrasting as it does with its own proper contraries.
	From: Crawford L. Elder (Real Natures and Familiar Objects [2004], 2.4)
	A reaction: See Elder for the details of this, but the idea that properties can only be individuated contextually sounds promising.

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

15453	The main rivals to universals are resemblance or natural-class nominalism, or sparse trope theory [Lewis]
	Full Idea: The leading rivals to a theory of universals are resemblance or natural-class nominalism, or sparse trope theory.
	From: David Lewis (Comment on Armstrong and Forrest [1986], p.110)
	A reaction: If that is the complete menu, I choose resemblance nominalism. All discussion of properties in terms of classes is wildly misguided (because properties come first). Why not 'natural' tropes?