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Ideas for 'The Basing Relation', 'Formal and Transcendental Logic' and 'What is a Law of Nature?'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
17691 Nothing is genuinely related to itself [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
17679 All instances of some property are strictly identical [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
12677 Armstrong holds that all basic properties are categorical [Armstrong, by Ellis]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
17666 Actualism means that ontology cannot contain what is merely physically possible [Armstrong]
17667 Dispositions exist, but their truth-makers are actual or categorical properties [Armstrong]
17687 If everything is powers there is a vicious regress, as powers are defined by more powers [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
17678 Universals are just the repeatable features of a world [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
17669 Realist regularity theories of laws need universals, to pick out the same phenomena [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
17677 Past, present and future must be equally real if universals are instantiated [Armstrong]
15442 Universals are abstractions from their particular instances [Armstrong, by Lewis]
17686 Universals are abstractions from states of affairs [Armstrong]