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Ideas for 'works', 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' and 'The Structure of Appearance'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
8273 Is 'the Thames is broad in London' relational, or adverbial, or segmental? [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
8285 I prefer 'modes' to 'tropes', because it emphasises their dependence [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
8295 Why cannot a trope float off and join another bundle? [Lowe]
8286 Tropes cannot have clear identity-conditions, so they are not objects [Lowe]
8294 How can tropes depend on objects for their identity, if objects are just bundles of tropes? [Lowe]
8296 Does a ball snug in plaster have one trope, or two which coincide? [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
8288 Sortal terms for universals involve a substance, whereas adjectival terms do not [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
8293 Real universals are needed to explain laws of nature [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals
8307 Particulars are instantiations, and universals are instantiables [Lowe]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
7956 If all and only red things were round things, we would need to specify the 'respect' of the resemblance [Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
7957 Without respects of resemblance, we would collect blue book, blue pen, red pen, red clock together [Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
7952 If we apply the same word to different things, it is only because we are willing to do so [Goodman, by Macdonald,C]