Where Do NEW Features Come From?

Q: Where do new features come from?
A: They come from new interactions.

If a feature comes from how an object interacts with another thing, then we can never know every feature about an object because we have not seen it interact with every other possible thing in the world (Nehamas, 1985).

It follows then that to find a new feature of an object, have the object interact with something it has never (or rarely) interacted with before.

Science is replete with stories of new features of objects emerging after getting them to interact with things they have never interacted with before. Superconductivity in ceramics, for example, emerged from interacting a specific ceramic material with electricity and a near-absolute-zero temperature.

But the same principle works for common objects, such as a basketball, as we have seen.

Which came first the feature or the relation?

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