Lexicon of Arguments

 

Armstrong III 161
Properties/Shoemaker: thesis: what makes a property be a property is their ability to contribute to the causal powers of the things that have this property.
>Causality, >Effect, >Forces.
The connection between a property and possible effects is a necessary one.
>Causal relation, >Dependence, >Causal dependence.
That is epistemically justified: they are known only by their effects.
BoydVsShoemaker: identity of the properties not only by its effects, but also by their causes.
>Causes, >Causation.
Armstrong: all properties are nomically connected with other properties.
>Properties/Armstrong.
Armstrong: Inactive properties are also properties.
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Armstrong II 85
Properties/Shoemaker: e.g. that my ballpoint pen is no longer 50 miles south of something is no real change of the properties, or
e.g. to be the property so that Ford is president, is not a real change if Ford is no longer President.
cf. >Properties/Chisholm, >Ontology/Chisholm.
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Armstrong III 8
Armstrong/Place/Martin: all authors per objective properties "in the" object.
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I Stalnaker 92
Properties/Shoemaker/Stalnaker: thesis: all properties are causal powers. - Then the causal laws of the properties are essential.
>Causal laws.