Los tropos son naturalezas individuales

Abstract

In this paper I aim at conceptually clarifying the idea of individual property. In particular, I argue that individual properties are not compounds, even if they are complex individual natures. On the one hand, they do not possess an “individuating” part that provides for their individuating conditions: individual properties have their own primitive numerical identity. On the other hand, they do not possess a “common,” “universalizing” part that provides for their nature: individual properties are individual natures. Moreover, the unjustified belief that nature must be universal, or common, lies beneath the false demand for grounding the individualization of individual properties.