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14413 | Some properties seem to be primitive, but others can be analysed [Merricks] |
Full Idea: Some properties (perhaps negative charge, or the relation of identity) admit of no analysis, and so are primitive. But others are analysable, and so not primitive | |
From: Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 7.I) |
6145 | Intrinsic properties are those an object still has even if only that object exists [Merricks] |
Full Idea: Intrinsic properties are, by and large, those properties that an object can exemplify even if that object and its parts (if any) are the only objects that exist. | |
From: Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §4.I) | |
A reaction: This leads to all sorts of properties that seemed intrinsic turning out to be relational. In what sense would a single object have mass, or impenetrability? |