Single Idea 8543

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 5. Natural Properties]

Full Idea

Our intuitions as to what are, and what are not, genuine properties are closely related to our intuitions as to what are, and what are not, genuine changes.

Gist of Idea

Genuine properties are closely related to genuine changes

Source

Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §02)

Book Reference

Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.207


A Reaction

A simple but brilliant insight. Somehow we must hack through the plethora of bogus properties and get to the real ones, cutting nature at the joints. Here we have the principle needed for the task.