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21 ideas
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
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Relational properties are clearly not essential to substances [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 3. Structural Relations
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Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Plato, by Koslicki]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
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Being taller is an external relation, but properties and substances have internal relations [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]
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Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]
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Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]
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Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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Numerical sameness is explained by theories of identity, but what explains qualitative identity? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
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When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato]
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How can universals connect instances, if they are nothing like them? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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563
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato]
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A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle on Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Real Nominalism is only committed to concrete particulars, word-tokens, and (possibly) sets [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Resemblance Nominalism cannot explain either new resemblances, or absence of resemblances [Macdonald,C]
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