Overview
A property is an entity that can be predicated of things or, in other words, attributed to them.
Instantiation
An entity is said to instantiate a property if said entity bears a connection to the property. For example, a human instantiates the property of being human and a man instantiates the properties of being human and being a man.
Bibliography
- Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti, “Properties,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, Spring 2022 (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/properties/.
- Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).