Full Idea
It is not clear to me that we easily distinguish ways a property is from the property itself.
Gist of Idea
Can we distinguish the way a property is from the property?
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 11.6)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.122
A Reaction
To defend properties as qualities, he is confusing ontology and epistemology. Presumably he means by 'ways a property is' what I would prefer to call 'ways a property seems to be'. I don't believe a smell is simply what it seems to be.