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Ideas for 'Elements of Mind', 'Essence and Accident' and 'Real Essentialism'

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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 / b. Critique of tropes

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If tropes are in space and time, in what sense are they abstract? [Oderberg]

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

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We need to distinguish the essential from the non-essential powers [Oderberg]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties

4079	Properties are causes [Crane]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers

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The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties' [Copi]