First published Thu Sep 23, 1999; substantive revision Wed Nov 25, 2020 Properties are those entities that can be predicated of things or, in other words, attributed to them. Thus, properties are often called predicables. Other terms for them are âattributesâ, âqualitiesâ, âfeaturesâ, âcharacteristicsâ, âtypesâ. Properties are also ways things are, entities that things exemplify or instantiate. Fo
The world appears to contain diverse kinds of objects and systemsâplanets, tornadoes, trees, ant colonies, and human persons, to name but a fewâcharacterized by distinctive features and behaviors. This casual impression is deepened by the success of the special sciences, with their distinctive taxonomies and laws characterizing astronomical, meteorological, chemical, botanical, biological, and psy
First published Sat Jan 5, 2002; substantive revision Mon Sep 18, 2023 We have some of our properties purely in virtue of the way we are. (Our mass is an example.) We have other properties in virtue of the way we interact with the world. (Our weight is an example.) The former are the intrinsic properties, the latter are the extrinsic properties. This seems to be an intuitive enough distinction to
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