Full Idea
I argue that a lump of clay borrows the property of being a statue from the statue. The lump is a statue because, and only because, there is something that the lump constitutes that is a statue.
Gist of Idea
The clay is not a statue - it borrows that property from the statue it constitutes
Source
Lynne Rudder Baker (Why Constitution is not Identity [1997], n9)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.602
A Reaction
It is skating on very thin metaphysical ice to introduce the concept of 'borrowing' a property. I've spent the last ten minutes trying to 'borrow' some properties, but without luck.