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    Not all properties exemplify themselves — Carmelics
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    Not all properties exemplify themselves

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    • 1.Russell's paradox demonstrates that unrestricted self-predication generates formal contradictions in any coherent theory of properties.
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    • 2.The property of being non-self-exemplifying cannot coherently exemplify itself, proving self-exemplification fails as a universal principle.
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    • 3.Avoiding paradox requires distinguishing levels of predication, as Russellian type theory formally establishes.
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    • 1.Abstract properties like 'triangularity' lack the concrete instantiations required to satisfy their own defining predicative conditions.
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    • 2.Zalta's object theory formally distinguishes encoding from exemplifying, showing properties encode but need not exemplify their own content.
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    • 1.People can be honest, but honesty itself is not honest
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    • 2.There is no clear reason to hold that all properties must exemplify themselves
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    Plato appears to hold that all properties exemplify themselves, when he claims that forms participate in themselves. This claim is crucially involved in his so-called third man argument, which led him to worry that his theory of forms is incoherent (Parmenides, 132 ff.). As we see matters now, it is not clear why we should hold that all properties exemplify themselves (Armstrong 1978a: 71); for instance, people are honest, but honesty itself is not honest (see, however, the entry on Plato’s Par
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