| Property | Substance | |
| examples | redness, hardness, wisdom, triangularity, painfulness | an apple, my dog, a carbon atom, a leaf, an angel |
| 1. | universal | particular |
| 2. | immutable & does not contain opposites within it | can change and have opposites |
| 3. | can be had by something else | fundamental, not had by something else |
| 4. | do not have causal powers | has causal powers |