Three Conceptions of States of Affairs

Vallicella, William F.

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“…Other philosophers use Armstrongian concepts in a platonistic context. For example, Vallicella (2000), a platonist, discusses Armstongian ontology extensively, accordingly intermixing the two due to Vallicella's platonism, including using the concept of a thin particular.…”

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“…I have altered Loux's passage to read as if he only discusses platonic realism, rather than metaphysical realism in general. For further lucid discussion on these issues, see Vallicella (2000). Some argue that it is not so certain that Bradley did not in fact conclusively argue that relations do not exist, and doubt that exemplification does away with the problems Bradley disclosed.…”

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The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

Grupp¹

2005

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I argue that relations between non-collocated spatial entities, between non-identical topological spaces, and between non-identical basic building blocks of space, do not exist. If any spatially located entities are not at the same spatial location, or if any topological spaces or basic building blocks of space are nonidentical, I will argue that there are no relations between or among them. The arguments I present are arguments that I have not seen in the literature.Axiomathes (2005) 15: 85-141 Ó Springer 2005

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The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

Grupp¹

2005

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“…Vallicella (2000) produces a similar response to the Bradleyan regress. Rather than saying that 'instantiation' relation is part of the ideology of the substance-attribute theory, he says that 'instantiation', tying a particular with its properties, is an operation that the mind imposes on the world.…”

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Indiscernibility and bundles in a structure

Demirli

2009

Philos Stud

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The bundle theory is a theory about the internal constitution of individuals. It asserts that individuals are entirely composed of universals. Typically, bundle theorists augment their theory with a constitutional approach to individuation entailing the thesis 'identity of constituents is a sufficient ground for numerical identity' (CIT). But then the bundle theory runs afoul of Black's duplication casea world containing two indiscernible spheres. Here I propose and defend a new version of the bundle theory that denies 'CIT', and which instead conjoins it with a structural diversity thesis, according to which being separated by distance is a sufficient ground for numerical diversity. This version accommodates Black's world as well as the three-spheres world-a world containing three indiscernible spheres, arranged as the vertices of an equilateral triangle. In this paper, I also criticize Rodriguez-Pereyra's alternative attempt to defend the bundle theory against Black's case and the case of the three-spheres world.

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“…Although the setting in which his suggestion is formulated is neither trope nor bundle theoretical (Armstrong is here interested in joining substrate with universal), his account is still interesting in that it clearly captures both why this 'no-relation' approach is attractive and why it is 11 A contemporary Bradleyan is Vallicella (2000Vallicella ( , 2002. 12 It is instructive to contrast the dependencies which characterize this (vicious) regress with those of the acceptable kind.…”

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Trope theory and the Bradley regress

Maurin

2009

Synthese

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Trope theory is the view that the world is a world of abstract particular qualities. But if all there is are tropes, how do we account for the truth of propositions ostensibly made true by some concrete particular? A common answer is that concrete particulars are nothing but tropes in compresence. This answer seems vulnerable to an argument (first presented by F. H. Bradley) according to which any attempt to account for the nature of relations will end up either in contradiction, nonsense, or will lead to a vicious infinite regress. I investigate Bradley's argument and claim that it fails to prove what it sets out to. It fails, I argue, because it does not take all the different ways in which relation and relata may depend on one another into account. If relations are entities that are distinct from yet essentially dependent upon their relata, the Bradleyan problem is solved. We are then free to say that tropes in compresence are what make true propositions ostensibly made true by concrete particulars.Keywords Trope theory · Bradley regress · Truth maker "Trope theory" here refers to the view that: (i) there are tropes; (ii) tropes are abstract, particular and simple entities; 1 and (iii) there is nothing but tropes. 2 Two further 1 The trope is simple in the sense that its qualitativeness and particularity do not have separate grounds in the trope. That tropes are (or, even, that they can be) simple in this sense has been criticized by Hochberg (2004). I defend this view in my (2005). 2 This, I take it, is the most wide-spread understanding of trope theory although minor variations exist. Trope theory is discussed and to some extent defended by, among others:

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Three Conceptions of States of Affairs

Cited by 65 publications

References 2 publications

The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

Indiscernibility and bundles in a structure

Trope theory and the Bradley regress

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