Full Idea
Upholders of properties have been inclined to postulate a distinct property corresponding to each distinct predicate. We could start by eliminating all those properties where the predicate fails to apply, is not true, of anything.
Gist of Idea
To the claim that every predicate has a property, start by eliminating failure of application of predicate
Source
David M. Armstrong (Properties [1992], §1)
Book Reference
'Properties', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. /Oliver,A [OUP 1997], p.165
A Reaction
This would leave billions of conjunctional, disjunctional and gerrymandered properties where the predicate applies very well. We are all 'on the same planet as New York'. Am I allowed to say that I 'wish' that a was F? He aims for 'sparse' properties.