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Full Idea
Some philosophers describe the colour scarlet as a determination of the determinable red; since the ways the world might be are naturally taken to be properties of the world, it helps to bear this analogy in mind.
Gist of Idea
Since possibilities are properties of the world, calling 'red' the determination of a determinable seems right
Source
Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 6.4)
Book Ref
Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.166
A Reaction
This fits nicely with the disposition accounts of modality which I favour. Hence being 'coloured' is a real property of objects, even in the absence of the name of its specific colour.