Full Idea
I believe in properties. That is, I have my candidates for entities to play the role and deserve the name. My principal candidates are sets of possible individuals.
Gist of Idea
I believe in properties, which are sets of possible individuals
Source
David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 3.4)
Book Reference
Lewis,David: 'On the Plurality of Worlds' [Blackwell 2001], p.189
A Reaction
I am bewildered by any claim that a property is a 'set'. The property of being a teaspoon is just a large pile of teaspoons (one pile in each possible world)? This is the tyranny of first-order logic in philosophy. Are sets more real than properties?
Related Idea
Idea 16281 Honesty requires philosophical theories we can commit to with our ordinary commonsense [Lewis]