(April 22, 2016 at 11:51 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(April 22, 2016 at 11:56 am)SteveII Wrote: It's one big problem. Properties are observed/discovered - not assigned. Some properties are essential to a thing (de re) and the thing could no longer be that thing without those properties. God is a good example of having a set of essential properties. Timeless, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, etc. Without these, then you would be talking about something other than God.
If I create a computer, am I not rearranging its prior constituent material into something new with properties that the material didn't have before? Aren't I intelligently assigning the computer with properties?
You are not assigning anything. If the device turns on and performs, then you have a computer. If it does not turn on, you have a pile of pieces --each with their own properties. Perhaps you are confusing assigning a word to describe a property. There are hundreds of word in other languages that all mean computer. The property of being a computer transcends all of those.
