Single Idea 6145

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties]

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.

Gist of Idea

Intrinsic properties are those an object still has even if only that object exists

Source

Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §4.I)

Book Reference

Merricks,Trenton: 'Objects and Persons' [OUP 2003], p.92


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?