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Full Idea
It is possible, I take it, that there might be simple natural properties different from any that instantiated within our world.
Gist of Idea
I assume there could be natural properties that are not instantiated in our world
Source
David Lewis (Against Structural Universals [1986], 'Uninstantiated')
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.107
A Reaction
Interesting. Fine for Lewis, of course, for whom possibilities seem (to me) to be just logical possibilities. Even a scientific essentialist, though, must allow that different stuff might exist, which might have different intrinsic properties.