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Ideas for 'Theaetetus', 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction' and 'From an Ontological Point of View'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities

7007	I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

7015	A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

7042	A theory of universals says similarity is identity of parts; for modes, similarity is primitive [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

4483	If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

7023	Powers or dispositions are usually seen as caused by lower-level qualities [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

7025	Are a property's dispositions built in, or contingently added? [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

4477	Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]

4481	Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

7034	Universals explain one-over-many relations, and similar qualities, and similar behaviour [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques

7039	How could you tell if the universals were missing from a world of instances? [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

4482	Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

4478	Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

7009	Similarity among modes will explain everthing universals were for [Heil]

7041	Similar objects have similar properties; properties are directly similar [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

7032	Objects join sets because of properties; the property is not bestowed by set membership [Heil]