Blob theory
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In philosophy, blob theory (also called metaphysical nihilism, or sometimes called mereological nihilism) is the position that properties do not exist. The reality that humans experience is a reality of properties.
For example, 'the apple is red', where red is what we experience, and is a property of the apple. Blob theory maintains that our experience is wrong, and there is no red, on this example.
Philosophers that have been or are blob theorists, are Willard Van Orman Quine and Peter Unger.
Blob theory has many similarities with the philosophies of nominalism and conceptualism.
