New Physical Properties :: Science Chemistry Physics Papers

New visible PropertiesDiscussions about corporalism, reduction, special sciences, the layered image of reality, multiple realizability, emergence, downward causation, etc., typically make the ontological presupposition that in that location is no room for innovative properties in the tangible world. The domain of physical properties would thus have been established erstwhile and for all. It is my purpose in this paper to explore the alternative system that in that location can be, and that in fact there are, new physical properties. In the first section, I propose a brief analysis of the notions of property, physical property, and new physical property. In the second section, I present iv general situations in which it would be plausible to speak of the existence of new physical properties. All of this is used to evaluate the content and scope of the hypothesis of physical novelty. Lastly, I examine certain interesting consequences of such a physical novelty in relation to some of the above mentioned topics. I. Properties, personal Properties, and New Physical PropertiesMy aim here is to explore the hypothesis that there can be in the world, and that in fact there are, new physical properties. But, before doing it, we need to make clear the sense in which we are going to speak of properties, of physical properties and of the existence of new physical properties.A. Referential Expressions for PropertiesStrictly speaking, nominalizations and quotations are the usual procedures by means of which we construct to construe referential expressions from the predicates of our languages. And it is through and through certain nominalizations, but not through quotations, that we get to construe from predicates something able to refer to properties. Which nominalizations would lead from predicates to referential expressions for properties? encounter a sentence like the following1. The sky has a salmon affectation.There are three possible kinds of nominalizati ons that we could construe involving all the elements presents in 12. The sky that has a salmon color.3. The having a salmon color the sky.4. The salmon color of the sky.Here, the sky that has a salmon color is an object. And 2 is a referential expression for an object. Just for the same object which is referred by the subject of sentence 1. The having a salmon color the sky is an event. And 3 is a referential expression for an event. Finally, the salmon color of the sky is a property. And 4 is a referential expression for a property.