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'Scientific Explanation', 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' and 'The Ethics'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence [Spinoza]
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Properties are 'dispositional', or 'categorical' (the latter as 'block' or 'intrinsic' structures) [Ellis, by PG]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
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5469
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The passive view of nature says categorical properties are basic, but others say dispositions [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
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A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Redness is not a property as it is not mind-independent [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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17195
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Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Properties have powers; they aren't just ways for logicians to classify objects [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Nearly all fundamental properties of physics are dispositional [Ellis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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The 'universal' term 'man' is just imagining whatever is the same in a multitude of men [Spinoza]
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