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Differentiating and Characterizing Feature

A property is a characteristic of an object that is capable of being attributed to objects.
Properties are not individual objects, but a form of object that can possess other properties.
An object is said to possess a property if the property can be truly predicated of the object.
Properties can be instantiated in more than one object, and the collection of objects that possess a property is called the extension of the property.
Philosophers have a debate about whether properties are universals or particulars.
A realist about properties asserts that properties have genuine, mind-independent existence.
Properties are often classified as either categorical or dispositional, depending on whether they concern what something is like or what powers something has.
Property dualism describes a category of positions in the philosophy of mind that holds that there exist two distinct kinds of properties: physical properties and mental properties.
Properties may be classified as intrinsic or extrinsic, depending on whether they are independent of other things or depend on a thing's relationship with other things.
In classical Aristotelian terminology, a property is one of the predicables, which are non-essential qualities of a species.
A property may be classified as either determinate or determinable.
There are at least some apparent relational properties which are merely derived from non-relational properties.

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Think you know your properties? Test your knowledge with this quiz that covers everything from the basics of what a property is to the more complex debates surrounding their existence and classification. Get ready to differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic properties, determine if properties are universals or particulars, and explore the world of property dualism. Challenge yourself with this quiz and see how much you really know about this fundamental concept in philosophy.