Full Idea
The disassociation of property identity from causal potentiality is an invitation to eliminate reference to properties from our explanatory hypotheses altogether.
Gist of Idea
If properties are separated from causal powers, this invites total elimination
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §05)
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.216
A Reaction
Just as epiphenomenalism about consciousness is a step towards eliminativism. This seems to describe Quine's reaction to Goodman, in moving from predicate nominalism to elimination of properties. I agree with Shoemaker.