What’s the Use of an Intrinsic Property?

Figdor, Carl G.

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“…She also mentions, among other examples, the property of being valuable, which might be exemplified by some things in virtue of what they are like in themselves, and by other things in virtue of their relational features (e. g., their consequences). In fact, if one item can be valuable intrinsically while another item is valuable extrinsically, then as Figdor (2014)⁸ describes, it is also possible that the same item has value intrinsically (due to its internal properties) and extrinsically (e. g., because it is valued by others) at the very same time. This is an uncontrived, ultra-mixed case-the same property had by the same individual at the same time both intrinsically and extrinsically.⁹ In his recent defense of the hyperintensionality of intrinsicality, Bader (2013) also mentions cases in which a property is possessed by an individual both intrinsically and extrinsically.¹⁰ Given the plausibility of HI and HI L , one might like to know which account of intrinsicality best accommodates both.¹¹ One natural way to honor both is with an appeal to the notion of grounding.…”

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“…Talk of having properties intrinsically, she claims, indicates independence from contextually relevant counterfactual circumstances, and which counterfactual circumstances are relevant and when depends on our explanatory purposes, as she describes in detail. If this explanatory account is correct, then there is reason to suspect that depending on our explanatory purposes, property F might count as one that x has intrinsically at t or as one that x has extrinsically at t.  The mixed cases make it tempting to regard the local notion of intrinsicality as more fundamental than the global notion, as Figdor (2008Figdor ( , 2014 and Bader (2013) make clear. Although see Witmer (2014), in this anthology, for an intriguing defense of the claim that the global notion is in fact the more basic.…”

Section: The Grounding Approachmentioning

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“…However, the accompanied circle has the property extrinsically since its being square or accompanied is simply its being accompanied, which is d-relational. The ultra-mixed cases described by Figdor (2008Figdor ( , 2014 are also allowed by R I *. It might be that at the very same time x has value intrinsically and also extrinsically-where there is some internal property I and some d-relational property D, such that x's intrinsic instantiation of value is its having I, and x's extrinsic instantiation of value is its having D.…”

Section: A Relational Approachmentioning

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Intrinsic/Extrinsic: A Relational Account Defended

Francescotti¹

2014

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A sentence or statement or proposition that ascribes intrinsic properties to something is entirely about that thing … A thing has its intrinsic properties in virtue of the way that thing itself, and nothing else, is … The intrinsic properties of something depend only on that thing … If something has an intrinsic property, then so does any perfect duplicate of that thing … (Lewis 1983a, p. 197) I once offered a definition that was meant to capture the notion expressed by the intuitive descriptions in this quote from Lewis.¹ The basic idea is that F is an intrinsic property of an item x just in case x's having F consists entirely in x'sha ving certain internal properties, where an internal property is one whose instantiation does not consist in one's relation to any distinct items (items other than oneself and one's proper parts). I still think that this relational analysis is largely correct, and here I wish to provide additional support for it and defend it against some objections that have been raised. In the process I aim to make the account somewhat more precise, especially by contrasting it with a grounding approach to defining the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction. In Favor of a Hyperintensional AccountConsider those properties that must be exemplified by any item that exists. Following Weatherson and Marshall (2013), let's call them "indiscriminately necessary" properties. Being self-identical is an indiscriminately necessary property. Unlike the property of being identical with Dennett, being self-identical is a property that cannot go unexemplified by anything. In addition to being indiscriminately necessary, the property of being self-identical also seems to be intrinsic; having this property does not seem to be a matter of how an item relates to anything distinct from itself. While this one seems intrinsic, some indiscriminately necessary properties (INPs) appear to be extrinsic. Assuming that numbers exist and exist necessarily, the property of coexisting with the number 9 is an INP. Given realism about numbers, our coexisting with 9 consists in our relation to something distinct from ourselves, which seems to make it an extrinsic feature of you and me.  See Francescotti (1999).

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Section: The Grounding Approachmentioning

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Francescotti¹

2014

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Building the monarchy of the Father

Sijuwade

2021

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Intrinsic properties and relations

Plate

2018

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This paper provides an analysis of the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction, as applied both to properties and to relations. In contrast to other accounts, the approach taken here locates the source of a property's intrinsicality or extrinsicality in the manner in which that property is 'logically constituted', and thus-plausibly-in its nature or essence, rather than in, e.g., its modal profile. Another respect in which the present proposal differs from many extant analyses lies in the fact that it does not seek to analyse the 'global' distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic properties on the basis of the 'local' distinction between having a property intrinsically and having it extrinsically. Instead, the latter distinction is explicated on the basis of the former.

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What’s the Use of an Intrinsic Property?

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