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Single Idea 19024
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties
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Full Idea
The crucial feature of the determinates / determinables relation is that to possess the determinable property, an object must possess exactly one of the determinate properties.
Gist of Idea
A determinate property must be a unique instance of the determinable class
Source
Barbara Vetter (Potentiality [2015], 5.7.2)
Book Ref
Vetter,Barbara: 'Potentiality: from Dispositions to Modality' [OUP 2015], p.178
A Reaction
This sounds like a determinable being a function, and the determinate being its output. If 'scarlet' is a determinate of the determinables 'red' or 'coloured', it is not obvious that there is only one possible shade of scarlet. This schema oversimplifies.
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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