Single Idea 9477

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties]

Full Idea

Categorical properties do not have their dispositional characters modally fixed, but may change their dispositional characters (and their causal and nomic behaviour more generally) across different worlds.

Gist of Idea

Categorical properties are not modally fixed, but change across possible worlds

Source

Alexander Bird (Nature's Metaphysics [2007], 3.1)

Book Reference

Bird,Alexander: 'Nature's Metaphysics' [OUP 2007], p.44


A Reaction

This is the key ground for Bird's praiseworth opposition to categorical propertie. I take it to be a nonsense to call the category in which we place something a 'property' of that thing. A confusion of thought with reality.