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'Writing the Book of the World', 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction' and 'The Bhagavad Gita'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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A property is intrinsic if an object alone in the world can instantiate it [Sider]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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Predicates can be 'sparse' if there is a universal, or if there is a natural property or relation [Sider]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]
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Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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I am all the beauty and goodness of things, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism
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Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]
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