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

15092

Formerly I said properties are individuated by essential causal powers and causing instantiation [Shoemaker, by Shoemaker]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties

8543	Genuine properties are closely related to genuine changes [Shoemaker]

8551	Properties must be essentially causal if we can know and speak about them [Shoemaker]

8557	To ascertain genuine properties, examine the object directly [Shoemaker]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

15761

We should abandon the idea that properties are the meanings of predicate expressions [Shoemaker]

15756

Some truths are not because of a thing's properties, but because of the properties of related things [Shoemaker]