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All the ideas for 'Relations', 'works' and 'Response to David Armstrong'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

21354

It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

21353

Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation

21352

'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

18398

Space, time, and some other basics, are not causal powers [Ellis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

13074

Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]