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Single Idea 18378

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties ]

Full Idea

Length is a 'determinable' property; being some particular length, such as a mile, is one of its 'determinates'.

Gist of Idea

Length is a 'determinable' property, and one mile is one its 'determinates'

Source

David M. Armstrong (Truth and Truthmakers [2004], 05.2.1)

Book Ref

Armstrong,D.M.: 'Truth and Truthmakers' [CUP 2004], p.62

A Reaction

The seem to be 'type' and 'token' properties, except that this other vocabulary indicates the link between them.

Related Idea

Idea 18379 The determinates of a determinable must be incompatible with each other [Armstrong]

The 17 ideas with the same theme [how properties might be divided into different groups]:

12264 An 'accident' is something which may possibly either belong or not belong to a thing [Aristotle]
17170 An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence [Spinoza]
18378 Length is a 'determinable' property, and one mile is one its 'determinates' [Armstrong]
18379 The determinates of a determinable must be incompatible with each other [Armstrong]
5468 Properties are 'dispositional', or 'categorical' (the latter as 'block' or 'intrinsic' structures) [Ellis, by PG]
5790 A property is 'emergent' if it is caused by elements of a system, when the elements lack the property [Searle]
12229 Maybe we have abundant properties for semantics, and sparse properties for ontology [Hale/Wright]
10720 We have four options, depending whether particulars and properties are sui generis or constructions [Oliver]
12354 A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin]
14333 Dispositions and categorical properties are two modes of presentation of the same thing [Mumford]
14978 A property is intrinsic if an object alone in the world can instantiate it [Sider]
14413 Some properties seem to be primitive, but others can be analysed [Merricks]
9502 There might be just one fundamental natural property [Bird]
18924 Being polka-dotted is a 'spatial distribution' property [Cameron]
16732 17th C qualities are either microphysical, or phenomenal, or powers [Pasnau]
19024 A determinate property must be a unique instance of the determinable class [Vetter]
22631 Properties are said to be categorical qualities or non-qualitative dispositions [Ingthorsson]