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Ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'Speaking of Objects'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

7925	There is no proper identity concept for properties, and it is hard to distinguish one from two [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

11942

Power is the possibility of action, as discovered by experience [Hume]

11949

There may well be powers in things, with which we are quite unacquainted [Hume]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

11950

We have no idea of powers, because we have no impressions of them [Hume]

11941

The distinction between a power and its exercise is entirely frivolous [Hume]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

11098

Momentary impressions are wrongly identified with one another on the basis of resemblance [Hume, by Quine]

7954	If we see a resemblance among objects, we apply the same name to them, despite their differences [Hume]