You seem to confuse properties with predicates or concepts that are part of verbal or mental representations of nature.Belindi wrote: ↑April 24th, 2021, 1:45 am Consul wrote:
"Natural properties (potentialities, abilities, powers) aren't "socially constructed". There's nothing conventional or contractual about them."
Here we disagree. Man makes sense of, narrates, the story of nature. It is unknowable what if anything is absolutely the case.
"Without properties, objects are empty and predicates blind."
(Martin, C. B. The Mind in Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. p. 80)