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'The Fixation of Belief', 'The Ethics' and 'Abstract Objects'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Realists take universals to be the referrents of both adjectives and of nouns [Hale]
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It is doubtful if one entity, a universal, can be picked out by both predicates and abstract nouns [Hale]
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If F can't have location, there is no problem of things having F in different locations [Hale]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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The 'universal' term 'man' is just imagining whatever is the same in a multitude of men [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Objections to Frege: abstracta are unknowable, non-independent, unstatable, unindividuated [Hale]
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