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Ideas for 'Person and Object', 'Mereology' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

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Some properties can never be had, like being a round square [Chisholm]

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Some properties, such as 'being a widow', can be seen as 'rooted outside the time they are had' [Chisholm]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

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If some dogs are brown, that entails the properties of 'being brown' and 'being canine' [Chisholm]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 5. Universals as Concepts

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Universals are not objects of sense and cannot be imagined - but can be conceived [Reid]

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

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Only individuals exist [Reid]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

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No one thinks two sheets possess a single whiteness, but all agree they are both white [Reid]