Single Idea 15478

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets]

Full Idea

If objects belong to classes in virtue of resemblances they bear to one another, they resemble one another in virtue of their properties. Objects resemble in some way or respect, and you could think of these ways or respects as 'properties'.

Gist of Idea

Properties are the respects in which objects resemble, which places them in classes

Source

C.B. Martin (The Mind in Nature [2008], 04.6)

Book Reference

Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.42


A Reaction

If you pare the universe down to one object with five distinct properties, they resemble nothing, and fail this definition. Resemblance seems like the epistemology, not the ontology.