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Property
?- 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 121 Essence as Reflection Within Itself
- 122 Appearance (Erscheinung)
- 123 Actuality (Wirklichkeit)
- 1221 Existence
- 1222 Appearance as such
- 1223 Essential Relation
- 12211 Thing and Properties
- 12212 Constitution out of Matters
- 12213 Dissolution of the Thing
- 122111 Thing-in-itself and Existence
- 122112 Property
- 122113 Interaction of things
Property
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A property is what belongs to a thing. In thing-thinking: the thing has properties (substrate + accidents). Hegel's dissolution: the thing is nothing other than the totality of its properties. There is no substrate behind the properties. The property is independent (can pass from one thing to another) and dependent (exists only on the thing). Example: color, weight, shape are properties — but the thing without any properties is an empty X. The dissolution of the thing into its properties leads to matter (the jumble of all properties), then to force/expression, finally to inner/outer.
Origin: Lat. *proprietas* (that which is one's own). Aristotle: *symbebēkos* (accident) on the substrate. Locke: primary vs. secondary qualities. Hume: the thing is a bundle of perceptions. Hegel: dialectical dissolution of the concept of the thing through its properties.
In Hegel: Enc. §125-130; SL Vol. 2, Appearance
Cross-references: Thing, Substance, Accident, Matter, Force, Appearance, Logic of Essence