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Ideas for 'Truth and Ontology', 'Mind in a Physical World' and 'Anti-Semite and Jew'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

14413	Some properties seem to be primitive, but others can be analysed [Merricks]
	Full Idea: Some properties (perhaps negative charge, or the relation of identity) admit of no analysis, and so are primitive. But others are analysable, and so not primitive
	From: Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 7.I)

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.