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Ideas for 'works', 'Properties and Predicates' and 'Mental Acts: their content and their objects'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
Attributes are functions, not objects; this distinguishes 'square of 2' from 'double of 2' [Geach]
There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor]