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'Parmenides', 'Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000' and 'From an Ontological Point of View'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities
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I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
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A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
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A theory of universals says similarity is identity of parts; for modes, similarity is primitive [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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Powers or dispositions are usually seen as caused by lower-level qualities [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Are a property's dispositions built in, or contingently added? [Heil]
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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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Universals explain one-over-many relations, and similar qualities, and similar behaviour [Heil]
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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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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [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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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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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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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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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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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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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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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 / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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How could you tell if the universals were missing from a world of instances? [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
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Similarity among modes will explain everthing universals were for [Heil]
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Similar objects have similar properties; properties are directly similar [Heil]
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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
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Objects join sets because of properties; the property is not bestowed by set membership [Heil]
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