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Ideas for 'Elements of Mind', 'Real Natures and Familiar Objects' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'

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

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Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

4082	The distinction between 'resultant' properties (weight) and 'emergent' properties is a bit vague [Crane]

4083	If mental properties are emergent they add a new type of causation, and physics is not complete [Crane]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

4234	Trope theory says blueness is a real feature of objects, but not the same as an identical blue found elsewhere [Lowe]

4235	Maybe a cushion is just a bundle of tropes, such as roundness, blueness and softness [Lowe]

4236	Tropes seem to be abstract entities, because they can't exist alone, but must come in bundles [Lowe]