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by tantalor 661 days ago
The name of something is not an intrinsic property.
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Can something posses extrinsic properties? Or are them a intrinsic property of external things?
Yes.

Not only is there a Wikipedia article on it, there's more than one.

Here's the one covering science and engineering, which is the appropriate version for this discussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_and_extrinsic_proper...

Are you asking if a property being intrinsic or not is an intrinsic property of that property?