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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
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Relational properties are clearly not essential to substances [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
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Being taller is an external relation, but properties and substances have internal relations [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
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Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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Tropes are abstract (two can occupy the same place), but not universals (they have locations) [Macdonald,C]
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Properties are sets of exactly resembling property-particulars [Macdonald,C]
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Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
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How do a group of resembling tropes all resemble one another in the same way? [Macdonald,C]
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Trope Nominalism is the only nominalism to introduce new entities, inviting Ockham's Razor [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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Numerical sameness is explained by theories of identity, but what explains qualitative identity? [Macdonald,C]
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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How can universals connect instances, if they are nothing like them? [Macdonald,C]
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
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Real Nominalism is only committed to concrete particulars, word-tokens, and (possibly) sets [Macdonald,C]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Resemblance Nominalism cannot explain either new resemblances, or absence of resemblances [Macdonald,C]
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