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'Through the Looking Glass', 'Causal and Metaphysical Necessity' and 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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A property's causal features are essential, and only they fix its identity [Shoemaker]
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I claim that a property has its causal features in all possible worlds [Shoemaker]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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I now deny that properties are cluster of powers, and take causal properties as basic [Shoemaker]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]
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Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism
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Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]
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