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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Properties' and 'Letters to De Vries'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties
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Without properties we would be unable to express the laws of nature [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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4034
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Whether we apply 'cold' or 'hot' to an object is quite separate from its change of temperature [Armstrong]
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8535
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To the claim that every predicate has a property, start by eliminating failure of application of predicate [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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8537
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Tropes fall into classes, because exact similarity is symmetrical and transitive [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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8538
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Trope theory needs extra commitments, to symmetry and non-transitivity, unless resemblance is exact [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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8539
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Universals are required to give a satisfactory account of the laws of nature [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Deniers of properties and relations rely on either predicates or on classes [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Resemblances must be in certain 'respects', and they seem awfully like properties [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Change of temperature in objects is quite independent of the predicates 'hot' and 'cold' [Armstrong]
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We want to know what constituents of objects are grounds for the application of predicates [Armstrong]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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8531
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In most sets there is no property common to all the members [Armstrong]
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