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Single Idea 10413

[from 'Properties' by Chris Swoyer, in 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets ]

Full Idea

The best-known candidate for an identity condition for properties is necessary coextensiveness.

Gist of Idea

The best-known candidate for an identity condition for properties is necessary coextensiveness

Source

Chris Swoyer (Properties [2000], 6)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.41


A Reaction

The necessity (in all possible worlds) covers renates and cordates. It is hard to see how one could assert the necessity without some deeper explanation. What makes us deny that actually coextensive renates and cordates have different properties?