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Ideas for 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'Letters to Des Bosses'

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

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Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies [Hobbes]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

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Accidents are not parts of bodies (like blood in a cloth); they have accidents as things have a size [Hobbes]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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The complete power of an event is just the aggregate of the qualities that produced it [Hobbes]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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There is active and passive power in the substantial chain and in the essence of a composite [Leibniz]

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Primitive force is what gives a composite its reality [Leibniz]

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

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The only generalities or universals are names or signs [Hobbes]