| 16621 | Accidents are not parts of bodies (like blood in a cloth); they have accidents as things have a size [Hobbes] |
| 4546 | We realise that properties are sensations of the feeling subject, not part of the thing [Nietzsche] |
| 6063 | Russell can't attribute existence to properties [McGinn on Russell] |
| 18439 | Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine] |
| 9017 | Predicates are not names; predicates are the other parties to predication [Quine] |
| 7925 | There is no proper identity concept for properties, and it is hard to distinguish one from two [Quine] |
| 10295 | Quine suggests that properties can be replaced with extensional entities like sets [Quine, by Shapiro] |
| 3322 | Quine says that if second-order logic is to quantify over properties, that can be done in first-order predicate logic [Quine, by Benardete,JA] |
| 6078 | Quine brought classes into semantics to get rid of properties [Quine, by McGinn] |
| 8479 | Don't analyse 'red is a colour' as involving properties. Say 'all red things are coloured things' [Quine, by Orenstein] |
| 7618 | Very nominalistic philosophers deny properties, though scientists accept them [Putnam] |
| 5456 | Redness is not a property as it is not mind-independent [Ellis] |
| 8959 | Field presumes properties can be eliminated from science [Field,H, by Szabó] |
| 3906 | If possible worlds are needed to define properties, maybe we should abandon properties [Scruton] |
| 4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
| 16263 | Fundamental physics seems to suggest there are no such things as properties [Maudlin] |
| 7965 | Does the knowledge of each property require an infinity of accompanying knowledge? [Macdonald,C] |
| 19121 | We can reduce properties to true formulas [Halbach/Leigh] |