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Ideas for Hermarchus, Friend/Kimpton-Nye and Chris Swoyer
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20 ideas
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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14595
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Can properties exemplify other properties? [Swoyer]
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10416
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Can properties have parts? [Swoyer]
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10399
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If a property such as self-identity can only be in one thing, it can't be a universal [Swoyer]
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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 / 5. Natural Properties
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10417
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There are only first-order properties ('red'), and none of higher-order ('coloured') [Swoyer]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
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10413
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The best-known candidate for an identity condition for properties is necessary coextensiveness [Swoyer]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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10402
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Various attempts are made to evade universals being wholly present in different places [Swoyer]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism
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10400
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Conceptualism says words like 'honesty' refer to concepts, not to properties [Swoyer]
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