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[from 'Defining 'Intrinsic' (with Rae Langton)' by David Lewis, in 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties ]

Full Idea

Lewis revised his analysis of duplication because he had assumed that as a matter of necessity perfectly natural properties are intrinsic, and that necessarily how a thing is intrinsically is determined completely by the natural properties it has.

Gist of Idea

We must avoid circularity between what is intrinsic and what is natural

Source

report of David Lewis (Defining 'Intrinsic' (with Rae Langton) [1998]) by Ross P. Cameron - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties 'Analysis'

Book Reference

'Routledge Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin/Simons etc [Routledge 2012], p.272


A Reaction

[This compares Lewis 1986:61 with Langton and Lewis 1998] I am keen on both intrinsic and on natural properties, but I have not yet confronted this little problem. Time for a displacement activity, I think....