Abstract
Modern Reductive Materialists want to say things like 'Heat is nothing but the mean kinetic energy of the molecules that compose the hot thing'. Here we have a contingent identification oj properties. Heat is a property. Being composed of molecules with a certain mean kinetic energy is a property. It is not a logical truth that they are the same property. But a (reductive) Materialist will say that they are the same property as a matter of fact. How is contingent identification of properties possible? I shall argue that such contingent identification requires a sharp distinction between properties and predicates, and a Realistic theory of proper ties.
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