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Things and their properties

A property is a feature of a thing - its colour, shape, weight. A thing can lose properties and stay the same thing, which raises the question whether a thing is something under its properties (Locke's "something, he knew not what") or only its properties bundled together (Hume).

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can say what a property is, and give the two answers to what a thing is apart from its properties, with the puzzle for each.

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  1. 1

    Foundation

    You can say what a property is, and give the two answers to what a thing is apart from its properties, with the puzzle for each.

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    Questions about what is realWhat a thing is, apart from what it is like, is one of metaphysics' first questions.

Your path here

What's still between you and Things and their properties, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.

  1. 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  4. 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  5. 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  6. 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  7. 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  8. 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  9. 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  10. 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  11. 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  12. 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  13. 13What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  14. 14Questions about what is realDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  15. 15Things and their propertiesDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics

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