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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties

4603	Functionalists in Fodor's camp usually say that a genuine property is one that figures in some causal laws [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4617	A stone does not possess the property of being a stone; its other properties make it a stone [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

4615	Complex properties are not new properties, they are merely new combinations of properties [Heil]

4612	Complex properties are just arrangements of simple properties; they do not "emerge" as separate [Heil]

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

4587	From the property predicates P and Q, we can get 'P or Q', but it doesn't have to designate another property [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

4611	The supporters of 'tropes' treat objects as bundles of tropes, when I think objects 'possess' properties [Heil]