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Ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' and ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

5468	Properties are 'dispositional', or 'categorical' (the latter as 'block' or 'intrinsic' structures) [Ellis, by PG]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

5469	The passive view of nature says categorical properties are basic, but others say dispositions [Ellis]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

5456	Redness is not a property as it is not mind-independent [Ellis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties

5481	Properties have powers; they aren't just ways for logicians to classify objects [Ellis]

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

5458	Nearly all fundamental properties of physics are dispositional [Ellis]

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

8502	Realism doesn't explain 'a is F' any further by saying it is 'a has F-ness' [Devitt]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

8503	The particular/universal distinction is unhelpful clutter; we should accept 'a is F' as basic [Devitt]

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

8501	Quineans take predication about objects as basic, not reference to properties they may have [Devitt]