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Ideas for Jacques Lenfant, Brian Ellis and Harold Noonan

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 1. Structure of an Object

12685	Categorical properties depend only on the structures they represent [Ellis]
	Full Idea: I would define categorical properties as those whose identities depend only on the kinds of structures they represent.
	From: Brian Ellis (The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism [2009], 3 n8)
	A reaction: Aha. So categorical properties would be much more perspicaciously labelled as 'structural' properties. Why does philosophical terminology make it all more difficult than it needs to be?