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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Causation and Laws of Nature' and 'Mind in a Physical World'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

2320	Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents [Kim]
	Full Idea: Macroproperties can, and in general do, have their own causal powers, powers that go beyond the causal powers of their microconstituents.
	From: Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §3 p.085)
	A reaction: I don't see why the macro-powers 'go beyond' the sum of the micro-powers. Admittedly one molecule can't be slippery, but slipperiness can be totally reduced to molecule behaviour.

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

14605	Tropes are the same as events [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: Tropes can be identified with events.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (Causation and Laws of Nature [2008], n17)
	A reaction: This is presumably on the view of events, associated with Kim, as instantiations of properties. This idea is a new angle on tropes and events which had never occurred to me.