Single Idea 10747

[catalogued under 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates]

Full Idea

The route to the existence of properties via ontological commitment provides little information about what properties are like.

Gist of Idea

Accepting properties by ontological commitment tells you very little about them

Source

Alex Oliver (The Metaphysics of Properties [1996], §22)

Book Reference

-: 'Mind' [-], p.59


A Reaction

NIce point, and rather important, I would say. I could hardly be committed to something for the sole reason that I had expressed a statement which contained an ontological commitment. Start from the reason for making the statement.