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All the ideas for 'Letter to Bramhall', 'Classical Cosmology (frags)' and 'Aristotle's Theory of Substance'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

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A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

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Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]