Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Friend/Kimpton-Nye and Michael J. Loux
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18 ideas
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
23708
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Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness [Friend/Kimpton-Nye, by PG]
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23709
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Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
4483
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If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
23707
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Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
23714
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Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
23711
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A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23712
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Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
23698
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Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23699
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'Masked' dispositions fail to react because something intervenes [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23700
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A disposition is 'altered' when the stimulus reverses the disposition [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23701
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A disposition is 'mimicked' if a different cause produces that effect from that stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23702
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A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23703
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Some dispositions manifest themselves without a stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23704
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We could analyse dispositions as 'possibilities', with no mention of a stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
4481
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Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]
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4477
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Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism
4482
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Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]
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