Sentence examples for accidental properties from inspiring English sources
These contrast with accidental properties.
Consider first the venerable distinction between essential and accidental properties.
Essential properties are contrasted with accidental properties, properties that things just happen, quite contingently, to have (see the entry on essential vs. accidental properties).
In contrast, its accidental properties are those properties that are not essential to it.
Nucleus theory seems to allow for change in the outer band of accidental properties (Simons 1994).
Bundle theory has been charged with ruling out the possibility of accidental properties in concrete particulars.
Hence, (19) might appear to be exactly the concretist truth condition for the denial of (the right conjunct of) (16), i.e., it might appear that, on Lewis's analysis, Algol is not a pet accidentally but essentially; likewise, more generally, any individual and any intuitively accidental property of that individual.
Linsky and Zalta's view requires that concreteness is an accidental property.
So, according to the basic modal characterization, being a dog is an accidental property of Emma.
In Topics 1 Aristotle distinguishes four relationships a predicate may have to the subject: it may give its definition, genus, unique property, or accidental property.
(In the modern parlance, being a cow is classified as an essential property of Elsie whereas being brown is an accidental property.
