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'Parmenides', 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism' and 'Elements of Mind'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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Physical properties are those relevant to how a physical system might act [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
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I support categorical properties, although most people only want causal powers [Ellis]
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Essentialism needs categorical properties (spatiotemporal and numerical relations) and dispositions [Ellis]
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Spatial, temporal and numerical relations have causal roles, without being causal [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
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If mental properties are emergent they add a new type of causation, and physics is not complete [Crane]
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The distinction between 'resultant' properties (weight) and 'emergent' properties is a bit vague [Crane]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
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Properties and relations are discovered, so they can't be mere sets of individuals [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Causal powers can't rest on things which lack causal power [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Properties are causes [Crane]
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Categoricals exist to influence powers. Such as structures, orientations and magnitudes [Ellis, by Williams,NE]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers
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Causal powers are a proper subset of the dispositional properties [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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