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What are examples of irreducible dispositions of objects?
Typically, macroscopic dispositions like fragility are in principle reducible to the molecular structure of the glass. Analogously for flammability, or even for mental dispositions like irritability, ...
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Are there Identity Conditions for Spinoza's modes?
A common interpretation of the relation of Substance to it's modes in Spinozas states that modes are properties of the Substance [1]. Let's assume this for now: Modes are properties of Substance. I ...
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Are any of the following considered properties? If so, what kind of properties are they?
Suppose Archie is the tallest man in Antarctica. Can Archie be said to have the property of being the tallest man in Antarctica?
Now suppose Archie tries to lift a crate of penguin eggs and finds it ...
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What if we could only "surmount" propositions with lower order properties as their object
This link nicely explains the difference between lower order and higher order properties
First-order properties and relations are those that can only be instantiated by individuals. For example, ...
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Do states of affairs exemplify the properties that appear in their representation, or do they encode these?
The encoding/exemplifying distinction is in part an attempt to make phrases like "the round square" or "a nonexistent Pegasus" intelligible, without violating consistency or ...
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Do individual obligations cease to exist when discharged?
While I was thinking about a (hopefully possible!) system of deontic logic with a prospective and retrospective OB operator respectively(!), I was fairly uncertain, maybe even confused, about how I ...
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Levels of truth (is the liar paradox generated by equivocation?)
Strictly, Tarski's notion of truth levels, which is based on truth as a predicate (property), has it so that the liar sentence, "This sentence is false," by trying to attach a truth ...
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Is there a term for properties that an entity has at a particular time, but which depend on the properties it has at other times?
Is there a term for properties that an entity has at a particular time, but which depend on the properties it has at other times?
For example, when he was a child, Lebron James had the property of ...
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I will be dead, but not sooner or later?
Are there properties, rather than the referents of terms, which can only be predicated of one thing?
for those who attach metaphysical weight to the distinction between
expressing (predicates) and ...
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Under moderate realism, what is considered the reason for similarity?
Moderate realism is a position on universals that holds the 'universality' of universals to be an aspect of universals that is added on by the mind in concepts through abstraction, and that '...
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Fundamental properties
Here is a train of thought I’ve put together inquiring into the nature of properties, with some questions at the end. Comments and recommendations for further reading are welcome.
We usually only ...
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