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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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Functionalists in Fodor's camp usually say that a genuine property is one that figures in some causal laws [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
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Resemblance or similarity is the core of our concept of a property [Kim]
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A stone does not possess the property of being a stone; its other properties make it a stone [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
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Is weight a 'resultant' property of water, but transparency an 'emergent' property? [Kim]
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Emergent properties are 'brute facts' (inexplicable), but still cause things [Kim]
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Complex properties are not new properties, they are merely new combinations of properties [Heil]
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Complex properties are just arrangements of simple properties; they do not "emerge" as separate [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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From the property predicates P and Q, we can get 'P or Q', but it doesn't have to designate another property [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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The supporters of 'tropes' treat objects as bundles of tropes, when I think objects 'possess' properties [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Should properties be individuated by their causal powers? [Kim]
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