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Ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'Word and Object' and 'De Ente et Essentia (Being and Essence)'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject [Aquinas]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

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Either dispositions rest on structures, or we keep saying 'all things being equal' [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent

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Explain unmanifested dispositions as structural similarities to objects which have manifested them [Quine, by Martin,CB]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques

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If the form of 'human' contains 'many', Socrates isn't human; if it contains 'one', Socrates is Plato [Aquinas]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

8504	Quine aims to deal with properties by the use of eternal open sentences, or classes [Quine, by Devitt]