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EntityQ1207505· pop 33· linked from 406 articles

Also known as feature, attribute, nature, trait, characteristic

distinguishing feature

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
property
Said to be same as
property
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Commons category
Quality
partially coincident with
attribute
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Encyclopedic overview

In philosophy, a quality is an attribute or a property characteristic of an object. In contemporary philosophy the idea of qualities, and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of qualities from one another, remains controversial.

Background

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “quality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.