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	Accidental properties -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An accidental property is one which has no necessary connection to the (Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted) essence of the thing being described.
		It is an essential property of bachelors that they are unmarried, but it is an accidental property of bachelors that they have brown hair.
		Even if for some reason all the unmarried men with non-brown hair were killed, and every single existent bachelor had brown hair, the property of having brown hair would still be accidental, since it is the case that in some possible world, a bachelor could have hair of another color.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/accidental_properties.htm (255 words)

	Accident (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, an accident is a property that its bearer has contingently—that is, a property which its bearer could have failed to have (without having failed to exist), had things been different.
		Accidental properties are defined by contrast to essential properties—properties which their bearer could not have failed to have without having failed to exist (or at least to exist as what it is).
		Thus, for example, the high value of gold in the jewelry market is an accident of gold: if humans did not exist, or did not make jewelry, or found gold ugly, then gold would not have a high value in the jewelry market, but it would still be gold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accident_(philosophy) (164 words)

	Properties
		Properties, by contrast, do not seem to have spatial parts; indeed, they are sometimes said to be wholly-present in each of their instances.
		The fact that properties confer causal powers on their instances is also naturally understood as the claim that the instances of a property have those powers in all possible worlds in which that property exists.
		According to minimalist conceptions of properties, the realm of properties is sparsely populated.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/properties (18888 words)

	Horse Property (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In common use, property is simply 'one's own thing' and refers to the relationship between individuals and the objects which they see as being their own to dispense with as they see fit.
		Scholars in the social sciences frequently conceive of property as a 'bundle of rights and obligations.' They stress that property is not a relationship between people and things, but a relationship between people with ''regard to things''.
		Property is often conceptualized as the rights of 'ownership' as defined in law.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/95/horse-property.html (1172 words)

	Accidental properties: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Accidental properties
		One trivial example may help to illustrate the distinction -- it is an essential property of bachelors that they are unmarried, but it is an accidental property of bachelors that they have brown hair.
		In fact, even if for some reason all the unmarried men non-brown hair were killed, and every single existent bachelors had brown hair, the property of having brown hair would still be accidental, since it is the case that in some possible world, a bachelor could have red hair.
		There are various categories of accidental properties in Aristotle's logic, among them being, number, quality, place, time, relation to other objects, etc.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ac/Accidental-properties.html (228 words)

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		But properties plainly can have some of their properties accidentally—witness being somebody’s favorite property, playing the pain role, and being the semantic value of ‘red’, all of which are accidental properties of any property that has them.
		If we take properties to be the sets of their actual and possible instances, then we have to be counterpart theorists, since otherwise the modally extended tables, chairs, and philosophers couldn’t have any accidental properties.
		Properties like believing that P will almost always be temporary, and so they won’t be properties of continuant people, but of their stages.
	www.geocities.com /eganamit/twoop.7.1.doc (9790 words)

	Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roughly, extrinsic properties of an object are properties that are expressed in terms of both the object and something external to the object.
		In particular, the property ``having five fingers on one's left hand'' (which I will later refer to as the property F) and the property ``having six fingers on one's left hand'' are both accidental intrinsic properties (Lewis, 158).
		The problem of accidental intrinsics, or rather the problem raised by accidental intrinsics, is the claim that the existence of accidental intrinsics and the principle of indiscernibility of identicals are incompatible (Loux, 195).
	www.yellowpigs.net /index.php?topic=philosophy/lewis (3464 words)

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		Extrinsic properties are determined, at least in part, by what happens in other regions (for instance, being the largest explosion of all times is only extrinsic to, say, the Big Bang because it depends on the size of other past, present, and future explosions).
		Intuitively, extrinsic properties are properties that events have, not purely in virtue of what they are like, but at least partly in virtue of what other things are like.
		It seems that the issue of whether he was causally responsible for that property is basically the same as the issue of whether he was causally responsible for the death.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /sartorio/cwc.doc (5903 words)

	Accidental properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aristotle made a distinction between the essential and accidental properties of a thing.
		An accidental property is one which has no necessary connection to the essence of the thing being described.
		This page was last modified 01:19, 31 March 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accidental_properties (221 words)

	Desert Landscapes » Blog Archive » Levey on Coincidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Granted, the statue lacks the modal property of possibly undergoing radical deformation, whereas the clay that makes it up does have that property; but such properties must supervene on the non-modal properties of the two.
		Both the magnetic properties and the chemical properties are sufficient to bind together the new object’s components.
		That way he could say that Mo and the other object have different modal properties, these supervene on different essential properties and the essential properties are to be understood in terms of principles of composition.
	www.arizonaphilosophy.com /index.php?p=90 (2098 words)

	Journal of Vision - Non-accidental properties and change detection, by Barenholtz, Cohen, Feldman, & Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The disproportionate degree of information carried by these properties suggests that the visual system might be particularly attuned to detecting and representing them when they appear in an image.
		Using a change detection task we investigated people’s ability to detect a change to a scene when it involved a non-accidental property as compared with a change that didn’t, theorizing that changes to properties that are ‘important’ to the visual system would be detected more efficiently.
		We found that a number of non-accidental properties led to much greater sensitivities then changes of equal magnitude (or greater) that did not involve one of these properties, suggesting a critical role for these properties in the visual representation.
	www.journalofvision.org /3/9/760 (337 words)

	Rental Property Insurance: Insurance Rental Properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Accidental Damage cover is available as an optional extension for both
		If selected, cover is extended to include accidental damage, tenant damage and theft by tenants up to the maximum policy sum insured.
		Cover is available for properties, with up to 4 bedrooms where the amount to be insured does not exceed £30,000.
	www.robertstagg.co.uk /insurance.asp (313 words)

	WescNet: Essential and Accidental Properties
		That doesn't, however, specify that the substance (the dog) is brown, as "brown" is (presumably) not a necessary characteristic for something to be a dog.
		The browniness of the dog is what we call an Accidental property, whilst the four-leggedness is an Essential property, if you use the first definition of a dog that I gave.
		Therefore, Accidental properties and Essential properties are simply in the terms you use to identify an item and have no empirical distinction.
	wescnet.tripod.com /properties.html (278 words)

	Study Guide 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An accidental property of a thing (of a given kind) is a property which the thing has, but which isn’t necessary to be a thing of that kind.
		Examples: being extended is an essential property of this sheet of paper; having-writing-on-it on it is an accidental property of this sheet of paper.
		What does the materialist think the essential property of a mental state like anger is? What does the dualist think the essential property of a mental state like anger is? (Note that when Carter refers to "the essence of anger" he means its essential properties.)
	www.uic.edu /classes/phil/phil203/study_guide_4.htm (751 words)

	IEEE Software: From the Editor - March/April 1999
		In using the words "essence" and "accident," Brooks drew on an ancient philosophical tradition of distinguishing between "essential" and "accidental" properties.
		Essential properties are those properties that a thing must have to be that thing: A car must have an engine, wheels, and a transmission in order to be a car.
		These are "accidental" properties, the properties that arise by happenstance and do not affect the basic car-ness of the car.
	www.stevemcconnell.com /ieeesoftware/eic04.htm (1207 words)

	The Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The properties that were seen as really existing in the object were called primary properties : the properties concerning the mathematical relations of extension and duration.
		Our normal observations are a confused morass or tangle of different properties affected by various causes; some of the causes and properties are fundamental and essential to the object or phenomenon, and some of the are merely accidental.
		The properties of objects that we perceive through the senses (secondary properties) are not really in the objects, but are simply the effects of extended matter on mental substance.
	www.anselm.edu /homepage/dbanach/sci.htm (1139 words)

	Accidental properties - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Accidental properties - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 01:19, 31 Mar 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Accidental properties contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Accidental_properties (241 words)

	Accidental properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is an essential property of bachelors that they areunmarried, but it is an accidental property of bachelors that they have brown hair.
		Even if for some reason all the unmarried men withnon-brown hair were killed, and every single existent bachelor had brown hair, the property of having brown hair would still beaccidental, since it is the case that in some possible world, a bachelor could have hair of another color.
		There are various categories of accidental properties in Aristotle's logic, including number, quality, place, time, relationto other objects, etc.
	www.therfcc.org /accidental-properties-15012.html (202 words)

	The Real Issue: Discerning and Defining the Essentials of Postmodernism
		Though much is being written on the nature of postmodernism, it appears many of the analyses focus on what may be termed "accidental properties," or properties which do accompany much postmodern thought, but are not essential to the view.
		I will discuss some of these accidental features, touch on the difficulties which result from identifying these as necessary or essential features of postmodernism, offer what seem to be the necessary or essential features of postmodernism, and compare these to the essential commitments of the Christian worldview.
		The result should be an understanding of postmodern thought which allows one to embrace that which is laudable and avoid that which is amiss in the postmodernist view.
	www.leaderu.com /real/ri9802/wallace.html (2736 words)

	Handout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Universals (common notions) vs. particulars: particulars are things that have properties, they are in a particular space and time, and they change with time.
		Plato's Realism about properties (either essences or accidents) =there is ONE thing that is had by each particular that we can legitimately place in the same category (we share the universal: being human; what bees have in common is the universal: being a bee)
		Plato's Idealism/Transcendentalism about properties =the world of particulars/changing things is separate from the world of immutable universals and the world of particulars are impoverished "copies" of the real things.
	www.auburn.edu /~clarkwe/handout25sep02.htm (973 words)

	Learn more about Accidental properties in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Learn more about Accidental properties in the online encyclopedia.
		You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Accidental properties
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ac/accidental_properties.html (294 words)

	Unabridged Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		accidental properties -- see essential vs. accidental properties
		emergent properties (Timothy O'Connor and Hong Yu Wong)
		properties of terms -- see terms, properties of: medieval theories of
	plato.stanford.edu /contents-unabridged.html (1484 words)

	Midterm Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		--Essential vs. Accidental properties: Essential properties are the properties of a thing that it
		It cannot lose its mass and still be what it is (essential property).
		a mistake to think of existence as a property of a thing at all.
	www.isu.edu /~skidjame/101midtermanswers.html (1104 words)

	Geometry.Net - Philosophers: Plato
		Chronological List of Published Entries A B C D...
		Z abduction (Peter Achinstein) Abelard [Abailard], Peter (Peter King) abstract objects (Gideon Rosen) Academy, Plato's (Wolfgang Mann) accidental properties see essential vs. accidental properties
		Commentary on plato's writings, an introduction to his thought, and an essay on his writing method.
	www4.geometry.net /philosophers/plato.html (1986 words)

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