 As we said before, we understand properties to be worldly characteristics that underlie objective, genuine, worldly similarities among things. Call this the “robust” or “realist” view of properties. On a very different “minimalist” view, to speak of a property is simply to talk in an abstract way about uses of predicates, such as their use in describing things. On such a view, our taking it to be true that it would be bad to drink more Dr. Peppers commits us to there being a “property” that is ascribed by “bad”, but this is nothing but a commitment to (roughly) whatever is involved in the predicative use of “bad”. Similarly, on such a view, the idea that there is a property ascribed by “normative” is merely a commitment to (roughly) whatever is involved in the predicative use of “normative”.