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Full Idea
Our idea of a peach is not an idea of something that 'has' those particular qualities, but the concrete thing that 'is' sweet and round and fuzzy.
Gist of Idea
A peach is sweet and fuzzy, but it doesn't 'have' those qualities
Source
Roderick Chisholm (Person and Object [1976], 1.6)
Book Ref
Chisholm,Roderick: 'Person and Object' [Open Court 1976], p.38
A Reaction
This is the beginnings of his 'adverbial' account of properties, with which you have to sympathise. It tries to eliminate the possibility of some propertyless thing, to which properties can then be added, like sprinkling sugar on it.