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Full Idea
Field regards the eliminability of apparent reference to properties from the language of science as a foregone result.
Gist of Idea
Field presumes properties can be eliminated from science
Source
report of Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980]) by Zoltán Gendler Szabó - Nominalism 5.1 n50
Book Ref
'The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics', ed/tr. Loux,M /Zimmerman,D [OUP 2005], p.36
A Reaction
Field is a nominalist who also denies the existence of mathematics as part of science. He has a taste for ontological 'desert landscapes'. I have no idea what a property really is, so I think he is on to something.