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Maximally Consistent Properties and the Property Specific to an Individual

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Axiomatic Formal Ontology

Part of the book series: Synthese Library ((SYLI,volume 264))

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According to TPT174 and TPT 175, a property-quantum is a property that is non-tautological with respect to one individual z at most, but whose saturation by z is nevertheless merely (in consideration of intensional content) a quasi-atomic states of affairs. Are there other property-quanta than the, as it were, trivial property-quantum t <0>?

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Meixner, U. (1997). Maximally Consistent Properties and the Property Specific to an Individual. In: Axiomatic Formal Ontology. Synthese Library, vol 264. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8867-6_41

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