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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Powers are 'multi-track' if they can produce a variety of manifestations [Williams,NE]
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Every possible state of affairs is written into its originating powers [Williams,NE]
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Naming powers is unwise, because that it usually done by a single manifestation [Williams,NE]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Fundamental physics describes everything in terms of powers [Williams,NE]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Rather than pure powers or pure categoricals, I favour basics which are both at once [Williams,NE]
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Powers are more complicated than properties which are always on display [Williams,NE]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers
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There are basic powers, which underlie dispositions, potentialities, capacities etc [Williams,NE]
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Dispositions are just useful descriptions, which are explained by underlying powers [Williams,NE]
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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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