Full Idea
Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all.
Clarification
Nominalists see language as arbitrary, rather than being fixed by reality
Gist of Idea
Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all
Source
DH Mellor / A Oliver (Introduction to 'Properties' [1997], §3)
Book Reference
'Properties', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. /Oliver,A [OUP 1997], p.4
A Reaction
Objects might be grasped without language, but events cannot be understood, and explanations of events seem inconceivable without properties (implying that they are essentially causal).