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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Quodlibeta' and 'Mr Strawson on Logical Theory'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16641	Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: Whiteness is said to exist not because it subsists in itself, but because by it something has existence-as-white.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Quodlibeta [1267], IX.2.2), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 10.2
	A reaction: It seems unavoidable to refer to the whiteness as 'it'. It might be called the 'adverbial' theory of properties, as ways of doing something.