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'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Truth and Truthmakers' and 'works'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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18372
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We need properties, as minimal truthmakers for the truths about objects [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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18379
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The determinates of a determinable must be incompatible with each other [Armstrong]
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18378
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Length is a 'determinable' property, and one mile is one its 'determinates' [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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18373
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If tropes are non-transferable, then they necessarily belong to their particular substance [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Properties are not powers - they just have powers [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
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18397
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Powers must result in some non-powers, or there would only be potential without result [Armstrong]
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How does the power of gravity know the distance it acts over? [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
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10396
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If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P]
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Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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The class of similar things is much too big a truthmaker for the feature of a particular [Armstrong]
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