ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to properties and their bearers, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. There are many objects in the world that are exactly the same colour. There are certainly many objects with exactly the same charge (electrons, for instance). People might say, then, that there are property bearers (each particular electron) and properties (the property of charge), and that the bearers bear (or 'instantiate') the properties. The questions discussed in the chapter are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
