ABSTRACT
It is common to distinguish between global and local intrinsicness. A property is locally intrinsic to a particular thing if that thing has that property intrinsically, but it may be that other objects have that property extrinsically. Globally intrinsic properties, by contrast, are intrinsic to any possible thing that has them: they cannot be had extrinsically. Many metaphysicians have been tempted by the doctrine that true propositions are made true by some thing or things in the world: that truths have truthmakers. Langton and Lewis start from the intuitive thought that intrinsicality seems to have something to do with independence from surroundings; while the having of an extrinsic property can depend on what goes on outside of the bearer of that property, the having of an intrinsic property never depends on what things outside of the bearer are like.
