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What is a property in the context of this text?
What is a property in the context of this text?
- A characteristic of an object that can be attributed to other objects (correct)
- A universal
- An individual object
- A form of object that can possess other properties
What is the extension of a property?
What is the extension of a property?
- The classification of properties as intrinsic or extrinsic
- The individual object that possesses the property
- The form of object that can possess other properties
- The collection of objects that possess the property (correct)
What is the difference between a categorical property and a dispositional property?
What is the difference between a categorical property and a dispositional property?
- Categorical properties concern what something is like, while dispositional properties concern what powers something has (correct)
- Categorical properties concern what powers something has, while dispositional properties concern what something is like
- Categorical properties are universal, while dispositional properties are particular
- Categorical properties are particular, while dispositional properties are universal
What is property dualism?
What is property dualism?
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What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic properties?
What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic properties?
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What are the two types of properties in classical Aristotelian terminology?
What are the two types of properties in classical Aristotelian terminology?
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What is a determinable property?
What is a determinable property?
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What is the debate about properties among philosophers?
What is the debate about properties among philosophers?
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What are some apparent relational properties?
What are some apparent relational properties?
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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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