 It is natural to distinguish a thing, an individual, a token, from any particular properties that the thing happens to have. The table is hard, brown, rectangular, and so on. But it is not identical with its hardness, brownness, rectangularity. These properties are rather naturally taken to be things it merely has… With things and properties thus distinguished, even if very intimately connected, we have what may be called a substance-attribute view. (1989: 60)