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Asked 11 February 2016

What are the differences between attribute and properties ?

From philosophical point of view, Classification point of view and GIS point of view. For example in a GIS software everything is treated as an attribute. In philosophy it is more difficult task. Please clarify 

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Attributes: additional information about an object.
Properties: describing the characteristics of an object.
When each property of an object gets value, it is actually the concept of attributes. For instance a Car :
car properties:
Colour
Type of Car
Production Year
fuel type
car Attributes:
Colour is red
The type of Car is BMW
Production Year is 2020
fuel type is Petrol
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Panos Fitsilis
University of Thessaly
The difference is subtle.
Attributes are refering to additional information of an object.
Properties are describing the characteristics of an object.
Most people use these two words as synonyms.
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Panos Fitsilis
University of Thessaly
The difference is subtle.
Attributes are refering to additional information of an object.
Properties are describing the characteristics of an object.
Most people use these two words as synonyms.
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TRUE! Exact answer by Dr. PANOS.
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Zafar Ali
Southeast University
An attribute is a quality or character ascribed to or considered to belong to, or be inherent in, a person or thing. A property is a quality or characteristic belonging to a person or thing, with its original use implying ownership, and also either being essential or special. However, property is now used to mean a quality or characteristic in general without reference to its being essential or special. In many contexts, these words can now be used interchangeably.
Amir Mohtarami
Tarbiat Modares University
In an object oriented context, Attribute refers to a class of objects and Property refers to an instant.
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Magnus Jandinger
Jönköping University
In enterprise modeling in general (and concept- and information models in particular) properties of an entity is described by the use of attributes defined in terms of unit and allowed values. For example, a entity Person has the property length, which can be expressed in several different ways (193cm, 5"4', 1.93m) depending on the attribute used.
Subhashis Das
University of Salamanca
attribute
 [data models] Nonspatial information about a geographic feature in a GIS, usually stored in a table and linked to the feature by a unique identifier. For example, attributes of a river might include its name, length, and sediment load at a gauging station.
[data models] In raster datasets, information associated with each unique value of a raster cell.
[graphics (map display)] Information that specifies how features are displayed and labeled on a map; for example, the graphic attributes of a river might include line thickness, line length, color, and font for labeling.
[ESRI software] In MOLE, aspatial information about a geographic feature in a GIS, usually stored in a table and linked to the feature by a unique identifier. For example, attributes of a force element might include its name and speed. Most MOLE attributes are what some military specifications refer to as labels or modifiers.
Gbenga Odukale
<GSO Systems Services>
Dear All.
This is really a delicate issue. In experiments, it is safer to be definite and precise. When an object is blue, just say, "The object is blue." Fields of human endeavour use these words differently as in engineering, medicine, architecture, mathematics, law, et cetera. Attribute is more about feature while property is more about character. While we can change the features of a person or thing much more easily, character is not that easy to change. Character is part of what forms the REALITY of a thing, but feature is just like beauty and anything based on beauty soon as beauty, fades.
Thanks All.
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Flor Nancy Diaz Piraquive
Fundación Universitaria Internacional de La Rioja UNIR
Attributes are additional elements of the observed object, complement good performance.
Properties are characteristics of the observed object, are part of it.
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Raul Bernardino
University of Liverpool
you are right Dr. Panos
Subhashis Das
University of Salamanca
A good discussion about this topic can be found in the paper "Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations: Some linguistic and ontological criteria for structuring knowledge bases" (Nicola Guarino, 1992) 
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Attributes: additional information about an object.
Properties: describing the characteristics of an object.
When each property of an object gets value, it is actually the concept of attributes. For instance a Car :
car properties:
Colour
Type of Car
Production Year
fuel type
car Attributes:
Colour is red
The type of Car is BMW
Production Year is 2020
fuel type is Petrol
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