Defining Basic Kinds of Properties
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Organon F |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | properties; kinds of properties; essential properties; intensional logic; transparent intensional logic |
| Description | Following Pavel Tichý, who distinguish trivial (i.e. constant) and non-trivial properties and used them to claim that individuals have only trivial properties necessarily, Pavel Cmorej has extended his classification by distinguishing of two kinds of non-trivial properties, namely purely empirical and partly essential (which are partly empirical) properties. Cmorej has shown that a partly essential property is essential for certain individual(s) but for other individual(s) it is not. In the present study we offer rigor formal definitions of trivial / non-trivial, essential / non-essential, and purely empirical / partly essential / purely essential with respect to the possible partiality of these properties. Then we add a definition of trivially void properties which completes the last mentioned division into the quadruple of properties kinds. However, the use of the concept of accidental properties gives rise to another (but not equivalent) quadruple: purely accidental / partly essential (i.e. partly accidental) / purely essential / void properties. |
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