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'works', 'The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'
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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 / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Two red cloths are separate instances of redness, because you can dye one of them blue [Campbell,K]
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Red could only recur in a variety of objects if it was many, which makes them particulars [Campbell,K]
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Tropes solve the Companionship Difficulty, since the resemblance is only between abstract particulars [Campbell,K]
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Tropes solve the Imperfect Community problem, as they can only resemble in one respect [Campbell,K]
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Trope theory makes space central to reality, as tropes must have a shape and size [Campbell,K]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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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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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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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 / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Nominalism has the problem that without humans nothing would resemble anything else [Campbell,K]
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