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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'The Republic'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
14926 Relations without relata must be treated as universals, with their own formal properties [Ladyman/Ross]
14929 A belief in relations must be a belief in things that are related [Ladyman/Ross]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
14925 The normal assumption is that relations depend on properties of the relata [Ladyman/Ross]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 3. Structural Relations
14931 That there are existent structures not made of entities is no stranger than the theory of universals [Ladyman/Ross]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
14932 Causal essentialism says properties are nothing but causal relations [Ladyman/Ross]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / e. Dispositions as potential
14920 If science captures the modal structure of things, that explains why its predictions work [Ladyman/Ross]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
223 If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
2142 The plurality of beautiful things must belong to a single class, because they have a single particular character [Plato]
227 You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
2159 Craftsmen making furniture refer to the form, but no one manufactures the form of furniture [Plato]
210 It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
220 The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
5094 Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space [Plato, by Aristotle]
211 If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
219 If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
228 Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
12043 Forms are not universals, as they don't cover every general term [Plato, by Annas]
16151 Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
218 Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
215 If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
212 The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
17 A Form applies to a set of particular things with the same name [Plato]
213 Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
216 If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
217 Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
214 If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
12122 Plato mistakenly thought forms were totally abstracted away from matter [Bacon on Plato]
5574 Plato's Forms not only do not come from the senses, but they are beyond possibility of sensing [Plato, by Kant]