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'works', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
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Relations without relata must be treated as universals, with their own formal properties [Ladyman/Ross]
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A belief in relations must be a belief in things that are related [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
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The normal assumption is that relations depend on properties of the relata [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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That there are existent structures not made of entities is no stranger than the theory of universals [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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Causal essentialism says properties are nothing but causal relations [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / e. Dispositions as potential
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If science captures the modal structure of things, that explains why its predictions work [Ladyman/Ross]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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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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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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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
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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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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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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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557
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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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