Individuals and Their Guises: a Property-theoretic Analysis

This paper reappraises Landman's formal theory of intensional individuals|indivi-duals under roles, or guises (Landman 1989)|within property theory (PT) (Turner 1992). As many of Landman's axioms exist to overcome the strong typing of his representation, casting his ideas in weakly typed PT produces a simpler theory. However, there is the possibility of an even greater simpliication: if roles, or guises , are represented with property modiiers then there is no need for Landman's intensional individuals. Landman's argument against the use of property modiiers is reexamined , and shown to be mistaken.