 Note that (PROP-NEC) is not intended to apply to properties understood as universals, but only to particularized properties (otherwise variously known as property instances, individual accidents, tropes, or modes). These are items exactly like the particular redness of a particular apple mentioned above, conceived of as an object distinct from the redness of any other apple, no matter how well matched in color to the first. On this interpretation, (PROP-NEC) has some plausibility, complying as it does with the intuition that particularized properties cannot “migrate” from one object to another. (Actually, (PROP-NEC) itself does not quite imply this, although it does imply that a particularized property cannot migrate from one object to another when the first object ceases to exist. Here, the friend of an essentialist analysis of dependence has some further options, i.e., one could say that it is part of the nature or essence of a particularized property to be instantiated by the very object that it is instantiated by. But we will leave this aside for now.)