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'Metaphysics', 'Properties' and 'Intellectual Autobiography'
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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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Without properties we would be unable to express the laws of nature [Armstrong]
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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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Whether we apply 'cold' or 'hot' to an object is quite separate from its change of temperature [Armstrong]
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To the claim that every predicate has a property, start by eliminating failure of application of predicate [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes fall into classes, because exact similarity is symmetrical and transitive [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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Trope theory needs extra commitments, to symmetry and non-transitivity, unless resemblance is exact [Armstrong]
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