@article {Daly:September 1998:0031-5621:196, author = "Daly C.", title = "What are Physical Properties", journal = "Pacific Philosophical Quarterly", volume = "79", year = "September 1998", abstract = "

This paper concerns an issue in the metaphysics of properties. The issue is: what are physical properties? What distinguishes physical properties from all other properties? My conclusions will be `downbeat'. I will argue that some major recent approaches to this issue prove unsatisfactory, and that the issue is much more intractable than has widely been supposed. The moral I draw is that there is no principled and well-defined distinction between physical properties and all other properties, and accordingly certain programmes in metaphysics should be abandoned because they mistakenly assume that there is such a distinction.

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