Sentence examples for incomplete properties from inspiring English sources

Thus the proponent of Forms only for incomplete properties looks to a special subset of the accidental properties, namely those where there is no unqualified possessor).

Forms are limited to these incomplete properties because, on this line of reasoning, these properties present special problems when they are instantiated in particulars.

For some readers, then, while the Plato of the middle period may believe in a wide range of properties, he is theoretically committed only to a limited number or range of Forms, namely Forms of incomplete properties.

On the predicative reading, knowledge is set over Forms, what is F, for any property F (or some privileged kinds of properties, e.g. incomplete properties); belief is set over what is F and not-F, the material particulars.

The veridical reading, combined with the account that limits Forms to incomplete properties (See §6, supra), allows for the possibility that the philosopher can have knowledge of the visible realm.

On the other hand, the philosopher, once he comes to know the Forms of the Incomplete Properties, can then have knowledge of the external world in any and all respects.

There is no precise way to specify what counts as an incomplete property.

This is the phenomenon where, with respect to any incomplete property, F, every sensible particular that is F is, in some sense, also not-F.

Hence, the sightlover can have only beliefs about the many beautifuls, or equals, or, for any incomplete property F, the many fs.

So, just as Elsie is completely a cow, so Largeness is completely large: Largeness is a complete bearer of an incomplete property.

Roughly, the idea is that an incomplete property is one which, when serving as a predicate, yields a statement that cannot be understood on its own, because they must be added on to, or completed in some sense, typically with a prepositional phrase.