(April 25, 2016 at 4:24 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(April 25, 2016 at 3:40 pm)SteveII Wrote: You are confusing creating something with assigning it properties. They are not the same thing. For example, if you very carefully carved a cubes out of block of wood -- you created a cube. You did not assign the properties (wooden, cube, x volume, brown, etc.). Additionally, that block of wood used to (but no more) have the property of being a tree.
I agree that in your example the cube was not assigned the property of being wood by my actions, but it clearly wasn't a cube before, and yet now it is, and so those are new properties that came about because of my actions. How is that not assigning properties?
The object's properties changed once you reached the already established definition of a cube. Assign means designate. You can't designate it a cube. It is either a cube or it is not--independent of your desires or wishes. You could have made a cube by accident or not know what a cube was. It would still have the properties of being a cube.
