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'Parmenides', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 2: Senses' and 'New work for a theory of universals'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Universals are wholly present in their instances, whereas properties are spread around [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties
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Natural properties figure in the analysis of similarity in intrinsic respects [Lewis, by Oliver]
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Lewisian natural properties fix reference of predicates, through a principle of charity [Lewis, by Hawley]
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Objects are demarcated by density and chemistry, and natural properties belong in what is well demarcated [Lewis]
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Reference partly concerns thought and language, partly eligibility of referent by natural properties [Lewis]
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Natural properties tend to belong to well-demarcated things, typically loci of causal chains [Lewis]
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For us, a property being natural is just an aspect of its featuring in the contents of our attitudes [Lewis]
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All perfectly natural properties are intrinsic [Lewis, by Lewis]
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Natural properties fix resemblance and powers, and are picked out by universals [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
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Lewis says properties are sets of actual and possible objects [Lewis, by Heil]
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Any class of things is a property, no matter how whimsical or irrelevant [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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There are far more properties than any brain could ever encodify [Lewis]
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We need properties as semantic values for linguistic expressions [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
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Properties are classes of possible and actual concrete particulars [Lewis, by Koslicki]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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Lewisian properties have powers because of their relationships to other properties [Lewis, by Hawthorne]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
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Most properties are causally irrelevant, and we can't spot the relevant ones. [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
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I suspend judgements about universals, but their work must be done [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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Physics aims to discover which universals actually exist [Lewis, by Moore,AW]
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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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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [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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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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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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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 / b. Nominalism about universals
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The One over Many problem (in predication terms) deserves to be neglected (by ostriches) [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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To have a property is to be a member of a class, usually a class of things [Lewis]
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Class Nominalism and Resemblance Nominalism are pretty much the same [Lewis]
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