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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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Without properties we would be unable to express the laws of nature [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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Whether we apply 'cold' or 'hot' to an object is quite separate from its change of temperature [Armstrong]
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To the claim that every predicate has a property, start by eliminating failure of application of predicate [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes fall into classes, because exact similarity is symmetrical and transitive [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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Trope theory needs extra commitments, to symmetry and non-transitivity, unless resemblance is exact [Armstrong]
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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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Universals are required to give a satisfactory account of the laws of nature [Armstrong]
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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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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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228
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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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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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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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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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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [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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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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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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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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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Deniers of properties and relations rely on either predicates or on classes [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Resemblances must be in certain 'respects', and they seem awfully like properties [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Change of temperature in objects is quite independent of the predicates 'hot' and 'cold' [Armstrong]
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We want to know what constituents of objects are grounds for the application of predicates [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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In most sets there is no property common to all the members [Armstrong]
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