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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

8959	Field presumes properties can be eliminated from science [Field,H, by Szabó]
	Full Idea: Field regards the eliminability of apparent reference to properties from the language of science as a foregone result.
	From: report of Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980]) by Zoltán Gendler Szabó - Nominalism 5.1 n50
	A reaction: Field is a nominalist who also denies the existence of mathematics as part of science. He has a taste for ontological 'desert landscapes'. I have no idea what a property really is, so I think he is on to something.