Full Idea
The properties of any essential nature are bound together....[122] so any case in which one of our envisioned familiar objects loses one of its essential properties will be a case in which it loses several.
Gist of Idea
Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together
Source
Crawford L. Elder (Real Natures and Familiar Objects [2004], 3)
Book Reference
Elder,Crawford L.: 'Real Natures and Familiar Objects' [MIT 2004], p.43
A Reaction
This sounds like a fairly good generalisation rather than a necessary truth. Is there a natural selection for properties, so that only the properties which are able to bind to others to form teams are able to survive and flourish?