| Author(s) |
Forrest, Peter
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| Publication Date |
2018-04
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| Abstract |
Typical structural universals are not just the mereological sum of their constituents. Hence, there is the Structure Problem of explaining this non-mereological structure. The Instantiation Problem is that the predicate "U is instantiated by x, y, etc., in that order" is ill-suited to be a primitive, unanalyzed predicate. The proposed solution to these problems is based on the observation that if universal U is said to supervene upon universals V, W, etc., then it is the instantiation of U that supervenes on the instantiation of V, W, etc. Assuming there are few subvenient universals, which is admittedly a speculation, their instantiation may be explained in ways that would be uneconomic if there were too many.
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| Citation |
American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(2), p. 141-151
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| ISSN |
2152-1123
0003-0481
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| Publisher |
University of Illinois Press
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| Title |
A Speculative Solution to the Instantiation and Structure Problems for Universals
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| Type of document |
Journal Article
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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