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'Metaphysics', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Summula philosophiae naturalis'
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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 / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Potentiality is a principle of change, in another thing, or as another thing [Aristotle]
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Active 'dunamis' is best translated as 'power' or 'ability' (rather than 'potentiality') [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Actualities are arranged by priority, going back to what initiates process [Aristotle]
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The main characteristic of the source of change is activity [energeia] [Aristotle, by Politis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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Giving the function of a house defines its actuality [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Potentiality in geometry is metaphorical [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent
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The Megarans say something is only capable of something when it is actually doing it [Aristotle]
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Megaran actualism is just scepticism about the qualities of things [Aristotle]
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Megaran actualists prevent anything from happening, by denying a capacity for it to happen! [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Substance is not a universal, as the former is particular but a universal is shared [Aristotle]
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Universals are indeterminate and only known in potential, because they are general [Aristotle, by Witt]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
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No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating? [Aristotle]
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If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them [Aristotle]
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How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle]
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There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities? [Aristotle]
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Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves [Aristotle]
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If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities [Aristotle]
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The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement [Aristotle]
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There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement [Aristotle]
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All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any [Aristotle]
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Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things? [Aristotle]
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Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status [Aristotle, by Moreland]
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If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled [Aristotle]
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