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'Principles of Philosophy', 'On 'Generation and Corruption'' and 'Truth and Truthmakers'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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We need properties, as minimal truthmakers for the truths about objects [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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The determinates of a determinable must be incompatible with each other [Armstrong]
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Length is a 'determinable' property, and one mile is one its 'determinates' [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities
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Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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If tropes are non-transferable, then they necessarily belong to their particular substance [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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All powers can be explained by obvious features like size, shape and motion of matter [Descartes]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Properties are not powers - they just have powers [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
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Powers must result in some non-powers, or there would only be potential without result [Armstrong]
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How does the power of gravity know the distance it acts over? [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Five universals: genus, species, difference, property, accident [Descartes]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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A universal is a single idea applied to individual things that are similar to one another [Descartes]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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The class of similar things is much too big a truthmaker for the feature of a particular [Armstrong]
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