Exemplification and Parthood

Author(s)
Forrest, Peter
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Consider the things that exist - the entities - and let us suppose they are mereologically structured, that is, some are parts of others. The project of ontology within the bounds of bare mereology use this structure to say which of these entities belong to various ontological kinds, such as properties and particulars. My purpose in this paper is to defend the most radical section of the project, the mereological theory of the exemplification of universals. Along the way I help myself to several hypotheses: the existence of merely possible worlds; that particulars have thisnesses; and that mereology is far from classical. Moreover, the way I characterize instantiation might be judged too complicated to be plausible. At the end of the paper, I reply to these objections based on complexity.
Citation
Axiomathes, 23(2), p. 323-341
ISSN
1572-8390
Link
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Title
Exemplification and Parthood
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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