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7935 | There cannot be uninstantiated properties [Aristotle, by Macdonald,C] |
16161 | Properties are just the ways in which forms are realised at various times [Aristotle, by Frede,M] |
15109 | The 'propriae' or 'necessary accidents' of a thing are separate, and derived from the essence [Aristotle, by Koslicki] |
17849 | For two things to differ in some respect, they must both possess that respect [Aristotle] |
7686 | For Aristotle, there are only as many properties as actually exist [Aristotle, by Jacquette] |
10947 | Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal [Aristotle] |
10956 | If we only saw bronze circles, would bronze be part of the concept of a circle? [Aristotle] |
16113 | Potentiality is a principle of change, in another thing, or as another thing [Aristotle] |
16114 | Active 'dunamis' is best translated as 'power' or 'ability' (rather than 'potentiality') [Aristotle, by Gill,ML] |
11387 | The main characteristic of the source of change is activity [energeia] [Aristotle, by Politis] |
15773 | Actualities are arranged by priority, going back to what initiates process [Aristotle] |
16753 | Giving the function of a house defines its actuality [Aristotle] |
15780 | Potentiality in geometry is metaphorical [Aristotle] |
11938 | The Megarans say something is only capable of something when it is actually doing it [Aristotle] |
15766 | Megaran actualism is just scepticism about the qualities of things [Aristotle] |
15767 | Megaran actualists prevent anything from happening, by denying a capacity for it to happen! [Aristotle] |
11379 | Substance is not a universal, as the former is particular but a universal is shared [Aristotle] |
12096 | Universals are indeterminate and only known in potential, because they are general [Aristotle, by Witt] |
649 | The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle] |
12094 | No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle] |
10948 | Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle] |
647 | There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [Aristotle] |
643 | How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle] |
633 | If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them [Aristotle] |
16110 | If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating? [Aristotle] |
9483 | Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle] |
640 | All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any [Aristotle] |
641 | Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things? [Aristotle] |
16108 | If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities [Aristotle] |
4470 | Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status [Aristotle, by Moreland] |
16145 | Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves [Aristotle] |
618 | There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement [Aristotle] |
642 | What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities? [Aristotle] |
605 | The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement [Aristotle] |
645 | If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled [Aristotle] |
7956 | If all and only red things were round things, we would need to specify the 'respect' of the resemblance [Goodman, by Macdonald,C] |
7957 | Without respects of resemblance, we would collect blue book, blue pen, red pen, red clock together [Goodman, by Macdonald,C] |
7952 | If we apply the same word to different things, it is only because we are willing to do so [Goodman, by Macdonald,C] |