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Single Idea 16230

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties]

Full Idea

Some philosophers suspect that properties are few and far between, that there are only properties like charge, mass, spin, and so on.

Gist of Idea

Maybe the only properties are basic ones like charge, mass and spin

Source

Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 5.1)

Book Reference

Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.147


A Reaction

I think properties are very sparse, and mainly consist of physical powers, but I am not sure what I think of this. It may be 'mere semantics'. Complex properties still seem to be properties. Powers combine to make properties, I suggest.