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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
17849 For two things to differ in some respect, they must both possess that respect [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
14333 Dispositions and categorical properties are two modes of presentation of the same thing [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
7686 For Aristotle, there are only as many properties as actually exist [Aristotle, by Jacquette]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
14336 Categorical predicates are those unconnected to functions [Mumford]
14315 Categorical properties and dispositions appear to explain one another [Mumford]
14332 There are four reasons for seeing categorical properties as the most fundamental [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
14302 A lead molecule is not leaden, and macroscopic properties need not be microscopically present [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
10947 Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
10956 If we only saw bronze circles, would bronze be part of the concept of a circle? [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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]
14294 Dispositions are attacked as mere regularities of events, or place-holders for unknown properties [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
14310 Dispositions are classifications of properties by functional role [Mumford]
14317 I say the categorical base causes the disposition manifestation [Mumford]
14316 If dispositions have several categorical realisations, that makes the two separate [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
16753 Giving the function of a house defines its actuality [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
15780 Potentiality in geometry is metaphorical [Aristotle]
14313 All properties must be causal powers (since they wouldn't exist otherwise) [Mumford]
14318 Intrinsic properties are just causal powers, and identifying a property as causal is then analytic [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
14293 Dispositions are ascribed to at least objects, substances and persons [Mumford]
14326 Unlike categorical bases, dispositions necessarily occupy a particular causal role [Mumford]
14298 Dispositions can be contrasted either with occurrences, or with categorical properties [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers
14314 If dispositions are powers, background conditions makes it hard to say what they do [Mumford]
14325 Maybe dispositions can replace powers in metaphysics, as what induces property change [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional
14312 Orthodoxy says dispositions entail conditionals (rather than being equivalent to them) [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent
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]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / e. Dispositions as potential
14291 Dispositions are not just possibilities - they are features of actual things [Mumford]
14299 There could be dispositions that are never manifested [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
14323 If every event has a cause, it is easy to invent a power to explain each case [Mumford]
14328 Traditional powers initiate change, but are mysterious between those changes [Mumford]
14331 Categorical eliminativists say there are no dispositions, just categorical states or mechanisms [Mumford]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
649 The acquisition of scientific knowledge is impossible without universals [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
12094 No universals exist separately from particulars [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
10948 Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
643 How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them? [Aristotle]
647 There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular [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]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
9483 Forms have to be their own paradigms, which seems to fuse the paradigm and the copy [Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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]
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]
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]