• The common ground for the two accounts of general orparticular properties (objects) and the account of fact is thatproperties play a major role in causation.• The dropping of a bottle caused it to break.It is some of the properties of the dropping or the bottle hasthe effect of breaking the bottle, such as the fragility or theheight of the dropping, but not all of them, some of which hasno contribution to the happening of the effect, such as thecolour of the bottle or on which day it dropped.