Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'Causal Explanation' and 'The Universe as We Find It'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties

18510

We need properties to explain how the world works [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

18522

Categorical properties were introduced by philosophers as actual properties, not if-then properties [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

18513

Emergent properties will need emergent substances to bear them [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

18540

Predicates only match properties at the level of fundamentals [Heil]

18533

In Fa, F may not be a property of a, but a determinable, satisfied by some determinate [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

18511

Properties have causal roles which sets can't possibly have [Heil]