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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'The Actual and the Possible' and 'On the Plurality of Worlds'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Surely 'slept in by Washington' is a property of some bed? [Lewis]
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Properties don't have degree; they are determinate, and things have varying relations to them [Lewis]
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The 'abundant' properties are just any bizarre property you fancy [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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To be a 'property' is to suit a theoretical role [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties
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All of the natural properties are included among the intrinsic properties [Lewis]
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A disjunctive property can be unnatural, but intrinsic if its disjuncts are intrinsic [Lewis]
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If a global intrinsic never varies between possible duplicates, all necessary properties are intrinsic [Cameron on Lewis]
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Global intrinsic may make necessarily coextensive properties both intrinsic or both extrinsic [Cameron on Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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We might try defining the natural properties by a short list of them [Lewis]
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Natural properties give similarity, joint carving, intrinsicness, specificity, homogeneity... [Lewis]
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We can't define natural properties by resemblance, if they are used to explain resemblance [Lewis]
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Defining natural properties by means of laws of nature is potentially circular [Lewis]
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I don't take 'natural' properties to be fixed by the nature of one possible world [Lewis]
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Sparse properties rest either on universals, or on tropes, or on primitive naturalness [Lewis, by Maudlin]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities
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I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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There is the property of belonging to a set, so abundant properties are as numerous as the sets [Lewis]
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A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
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A property is the set of its actual and possible instances [Lewis, by Oliver]
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The property of being F is identical with the set of objects, in all possible worlds, which are F [Lewis, by Cameron]
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Properties don't seem to be sets, because different properties can have the same set [Lewis]
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Accidentally coextensive properties come apart when we include their possible instances [Lewis]
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If a property is relative, such as being a father or son, then set membership seems relative too [Lewis]
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Trilateral and triangular seem to be coextensive sets in all possible worlds [Lewis]
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I believe in properties, which are sets of possible individuals [Lewis]
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It would be easiest to take a property as the set of its instances [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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You must accept primitive similarity to like tropes, but tropes give a good account of it [Lewis]
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A theory of universals says similarity is identity of parts; for modes, similarity is primitive [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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Tropes need a similarity primitive, so they cannot be used to explain similarity [Lewis]
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Trope theory (unlike universals) needs a primitive notion of being duplicates [Lewis]
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Trope theory needs a primitive notion for what unites some tropes [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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Powers or dispositions are usually seen as caused by lower-level qualities [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Are a property's dispositions built in, or contingently added? [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Universals recur, are multiply located, wholly present, make things overlap, and are held in common [Lewis]
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If particles were just made of universals, similar particles would be the same particle [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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Universals explain one-over-many relations, and similar qualities, and similar behaviour [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
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Universals aren't parts of things, because that relationship is transitive, and universals need not be [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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How could you tell if the universals were missing from a world of instances? [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Similarity among modes will explain everthing universals were for [Heil]
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Similar objects have similar properties; properties are directly similar [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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Objects join sets because of properties; the property is not bestowed by set membership [Heil]
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