Particularism: Properties Do Not Exist: (Instead, the Real Predicables Are Types of Aspects of Particulars, Aspects Themselves Utterly Particular)*

This is an essay first against properties and then against ‘the property mistake’ of confounding real predicables such as shape, mass, colour, and location, with properties, that is, things ostensibly picked out by canonical property designators of the form the property of being F. It offers what may initially seem to be a trope-like theory of similarity, sameness of type, truthmaking, the categorical/dispositional distinction, laws of nature, and the limited variety of essences, as well as a ‘pleonastic’ account of properties. The central theses are that everything is particular, there is no such thing as instantiation, and properties do not exist.