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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Truthmakers' and 'On What There Is'
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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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A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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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 / 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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Realism, conceptualism and nominalism in medieval universals reappear in maths as logicism, intuitionism and formalism [Quine]
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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 / 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 / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
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There is no entity called 'redness', and that some things are red is ultimate and irreducible [Quine]
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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 / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Quine has argued that predicates do not have any ontological commitment [Quine, by Armstrong]
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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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