Material objects and essential bundle theory.
In this paper we present a new metaphysical theory of material objects. On our theory, objects are bundles of property instances, where those properties give the nature or essence of that object. We call the theory essential bundle theory. Property possession is not analysed as bundle-membership, as...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 175; no. 12; pp. 2969 - 2987 |
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Dec2018
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