generic property

To argue in that way, however, is not to compare like with like; it is to contrast the generic property of extension with the more specific properties of hardness, smell and colour. It is not after all clear that it loses the generic properties of smell, colour and perhaps solidity, as opposed to the more specific forms of those properties that the unmelted wax may have.

A property P that refers to members of a set Y is a generic property if the subset of Y whose members exhibit property P contains a dense open subset of Y.

Remark: If P₁ and P₂ are generic properties of a set Y, then so is the property "P₁ and P₂."