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Single Idea 15742
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties
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Full Idea
A property can be unnatural by reason of disjunctiveness, as the property of being tripartite-or-liquid-or-cubical is, and it is intrinsic if its disjuncts are.
Gist of Idea
A disjunctive property can be unnatural, but intrinsic if its disjuncts are intrinsic
Source
David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 1.5)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'On the Plurality of Worlds' [Blackwell 2001], p.61
A Reaction
This strikes me as being utterly, shockingly and disgracefully wrong. A disjunction can't possibly be a property. Can a person have the property of being 'fat or thin'? A disjunction offers candidates for properties, not the properties themselves.
Related Idea
Idea 15741
All of the natural properties are included among the intrinsic properties [Lewis]
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[properties that involve no other objects]:
18910
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To seek truth, study the real connections between subjects and attributes
[Aristotle]
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15874
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Scientific properties are not observed qualities, but the dispositions which create them
[Harré]
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15456
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Extrinsic properties, unlike intrinsics, imply the existence of a separate object
[Kim, by Lewis]
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15400
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We must avoid circularity between what is intrinsic and what is natural
[Lewis, by Cameron]
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15458
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A property is 'intrinsic' iff it can never differ between duplicates
[Lewis]
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15459
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Ellipsoidal stars seem to have an intrinsic property which depends on other objects
[Lewis]
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14979
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Being alone doesn't guarantee intrinsic properties; 'being alone' is itself extrinsic
[Lewis, by Sider]
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15454
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Extrinsic properties come in degrees, with 'brother' less extrinsic than 'sibling'
[Lewis]
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15742
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A disjunctive property can be unnatural, but intrinsic if its disjuncts are intrinsic
[Lewis]
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15741
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All of the natural properties are included among the intrinsic properties
[Lewis]
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15397
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If a global intrinsic never varies between possible duplicates, all necessary properties are intrinsic
[Cameron on Lewis]
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15398
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Global intrinsic may make necessarily coextensive properties both intrinsic or both extrinsic
[Cameron on Lewis]
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15435
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If you think universals are immanent, you must believe them to be sparse, and not every related predicate
[Lewis]
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14093
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An 'intrinsic' property is one that depends on a thing and its parts, and not on its relations
[Rosen]
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6145
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Intrinsic properties are those an object still has even if only that object exists
[Merricks]
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14088
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An 'intrinsic' property is either found in every duplicate, or exists independent of all externals
[Linnebo]
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15401
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Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings
[Cameron]
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15393
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An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently
[Cameron]
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