How to Be a Pluralist in Substance Ontology.
The four principal competing substance ontologies are substratum theory, bundle theory, primitive substance theory, and hylomorphism. Both historically and in the recent literature, most arguments pertaining to these four theories have been developed under the assumption that only one of them can be...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. 995 - 1023 |
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