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Single Idea 17170
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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Full Idea
By 'attribute' I understand that which the intellect perceives of substance, as if constituting its essence.
Gist of Idea
An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], I Def 4)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.3
A Reaction
Note that we would call these 'properties', but Spinoza has a word reserved for the properties of essences. He also has 'modes' of a thing, which are different.
Related Idea
Idea 17171
A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza]
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[how properties might be divided into different groups]:
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12264
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An 'accident' is something which may possibly either belong or not belong to a thing
[Aristotle]
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17170
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An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence
[Spinoza]
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18378
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Length is a 'determinable' property, and one mile is one its 'determinates'
[Armstrong]
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18379
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The determinates of a determinable must be incompatible with each other
[Armstrong]
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5468
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Properties are 'dispositional', or 'categorical' (the latter as 'block' or 'intrinsic' structures)
[Ellis, by PG]
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5790
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A property is 'emergent' if it is caused by elements of a system, when the elements lack the property
[Searle]
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12229
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Maybe we have abundant properties for semantics, and sparse properties for ontology
[Hale/Wright]
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10720
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We have four options, depending whether particulars and properties are sui generis or constructions
[Oliver]
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12354
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A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category
[Wedin]
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14333
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Dispositions and categorical properties are two modes of presentation of the same thing
[Mumford]
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14978
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A property is intrinsic if an object alone in the world can instantiate it
[Sider]
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14413
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Some properties seem to be primitive, but others can be analysed
[Merricks]
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9502
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There might be just one fundamental natural property
[Bird]
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18924
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Being polka-dotted is a 'spatial distribution' property
[Cameron]
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16732
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17th C qualities are either microphysical, or phenomenal, or powers
[Pasnau]
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19024
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A determinate property must be a unique instance of the determinable class
[Vetter]
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22631
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Properties are said to be categorical qualities or non-qualitative dispositions
[Ingthorsson]
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