Categoricalism is a doctrine about properties according to which the dispositional aspects of properties are not essential to them. In opposition to categoricalism, dispositionalism holds that the dispositional aspects of properties are essential to them. In this article, I shall construct a new version of categoricalism that should be favoured over the other existing versions: Semi-Necessitarian Categoricalism. In Section 2 I shall elaborate on the distinction between categoricalism and dispositionalism and single out different ‘shades’ of both doctrines. I shall also illustrate the main advantages and problems that characterize categoricalism. In Section 3 I shall introduce Necessitarian Categoricalism—as it has been recently developed by Alexander Kelly and Deborah Smith, among others. Even if Necessitarian Categoricalism solves the aforementioned problems of categoricalism, it also loses its main advantages. In Section 4 I shall refine this version of Necessitarian Categoricalism, thus developing Semi-Necessitarian Categoricalism. In Section 5 I shall face some objections. Finally, in Section 6, I shall briefly draw some conclusions and compare my account with other accounts.

绝对主义是一种关于属性的学说，根据该学说，属性的处置方面不是对他们来说必不可少。与绝对主义相反，性格论认为属性的性格方面对他们来说是必不可少的。在本文中，我将构建一个新版本的绝对主义，它应该优于其他现有版本：半必然主义。在第 2 节中，我将详细说明分类主义和倾向主义之间的区别，并挑出这两种学说的不同“阴影”。我还将说明分类主义的主要优点和问题。在第 3 节中，我将介绍必然主义绝对主义——它最近由 Alexander Kelly 和 Deborah Smith 等人提出。即使必然主义定论主义解决了定论主义的上述问题，它也失去了它的主要优势。在第 4 节中，我将完善这个版本的必然论，从而发展半必然论。在第 5 节中，我将面临一些反对意见。最后，在第 6 节中，我将简要得出一些结论并将我的帐户与其他帐户进行比较。