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6145 | Intrinsic properties are those an object still has even if only that object exists [Merricks] |
Full Idea: Intrinsic properties are, by and large, those properties that an object can exemplify even if that object and its parts (if any) are the only objects that exist. | |
From: Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §4.I) | |
A reaction: This leads to all sorts of properties that seemed intrinsic turning out to be relational. In what sense would a single object have mass, or impenetrability? |