Full Idea
Logic involves the possibilities of predicating properties of objects in a conceptual scheme wherein either objects and properties are included in altogether separate categories, or objects are reducible to combinations of properties.
Gist of Idea
Logic is based either on separate objects and properties, or objects as combinations of properties
Source
Dale Jacquette (Ontology [2002], Ch. 2)
Book Reference
Jacquette,Dale: 'Ontology' [Acumen 2002], p.52
A Reaction
In the first view, he says that objects are just 'logical pegs' for properties. Objects can't be individuated without properties. But combinations of properties would seem to need essences, or else they are too unstable to count as objects.