Dependent co-arising in the Madhyamaka philosophical tradition and its formal analogues in structuralist metaphysics (cf. Ladyman & Ross) establish that ontological dependence between properties is coherent and does not entail the dependent property is less real.
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Structuralist metaphysics(as used in contemporary philosophy)
A modern approach to understanding reality that says the deep nature of things comes from the relationships and patterns between them, rather than from independent building blocks.
cf.(as used in academic and philosophical writing)
An abbreviation of the Latin phrase 'confer,' meaning 'compare this to' or 'see also'—it tells you to look at another source for a related idea.
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
ontological dependence(Metaphysics)
A relation in which the existence or nature of one thing is accounted for by appeal to other things (e.g., a complex object exists because its parts exist; a set exists because its members exist)
properties(Contrasted with substances as ontologically dependent entities.)
Entities that depend for their existence on substances, being properties of individual objects.