Physics and Intrinsic Properties

In Robert M. Francescotti (ed.), Companion to Intrinsic Properties. De Gruyter. pp. 253-270 (2013)
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The paper sketches out an ontology of physics in terms of matter being primitive stuff distributed in space and all the properties physics is committed to being dispositions that fix the temporal development of the distribution of matter in space. Whereas such properties can be conceived as intrinsic properties of particles in classical mechanics, in quantum physics, there is a holistic property or structure that relates all matter and that fixes its temporal development.

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