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Full Idea
Our intuitions as to what are, and what are not, genuine properties are closely related to our intuitions as to what are, and what are not, genuine changes.
Gist of Idea
Genuine properties are closely related to genuine changes
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §02)
Book Ref
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.207
A Reaction
A simple but brilliant insight. Somehow we must hack through the plethora of bogus properties and get to the real ones, cutting nature at the joints. Here we have the principle needed for the task.