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'Metaphysics', 'Varieties of Things' and 'Slaughterhouse Five'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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There cannot be uninstantiated properties [Aristotle, by Macdonald,C]
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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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The 'propriae' or 'necessary accidents' of a thing are separate, and derived from the essence [Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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For two things to differ in some respect, they must both possess that respect [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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For Aristotle, there are only as many properties as actually exist [Aristotle, by Jacquette]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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If we only saw bronze circles, would bronze be part of the concept of a circle? [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]
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Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]
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Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]
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Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]
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