Features and Bugs in Schnieder’s Theory of Properties

Abstract Although Benjamin Schnieder’s theory of the “ordinary conception” properties successfully handles paradoxical properties—particularly, property non-self-instantiation—it fails to account for ordinary, non-pathological cases. The allows inference ‘a has being F’ only given F(a) and prior assertibility ‘the F can exist’. While this us block an a contradiction, it also blocks all instances from is F’. It thereby both as ordinary conception replacement notion, assuming latter defective.