Lexicon of Arguments

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I 144
Properties/existence/Schiffer:
Names: are (correctly) distinguished from objects - an object is named contingently.
Different from that:
Properties: are not equally distinguished from the predicate.
Otherwise: "Property Realism": predicates as the names of the properties (SchifferVs).
>Predicates/Quine, >Properties/Quine, >Schematic letters/Quine.
Yet harmless: "something that both believe"
Solution: substitutional quantification.
>Substitutional quantification, >Intensional Objects, >Objects of thought, >Objects of belief.
Similar problem: the harmless pleonastic use of "fact".
>Facts/Geach.
I 145
Physical property and facts/Schiffer: thesis: these are language-dependent.
But:
Nominalism (Schiffer pro): Properties are not the semantic values of predicates.
>Semantic value.

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