Full Idea
Chisholm and Kim proposed a modal notion of an 'intrinsic' property - that a property is intrinsic if and only if it is possibly instantiated by an object that is alone in the world.
Gist of Idea
A property is intrinsic if an object alone in the world can instantiate it
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 01.2)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.4
A Reaction
[He cites Chisholm 1976:127 and Kim 1982:59-60] Sider then gives a counterexample from David Lewis (Idea 14979).
Related Idea
Idea 14979 Being alone doesn't guarantee intrinsic properties; 'being alone' is itself extrinsic [Lewis, by Sider]