Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Baruch de Spinoza and Douglas Edwards

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties

18430

We accept properties because of type/tokens, reference, and quantification [Edwards]

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

17170

An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence [Spinoza]

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

17171

A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza]

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

18432

Quineans say that predication is primitive and inexplicable [Edwards]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

17195

Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

17206

The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques

17192

The 'universal' term 'man' is just imagining whatever is the same in a multitude of men [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

18437

Resemblance nominalism requires a second entity to explain 'the rose is crimson' [Edwards]