What's in a name? Qualitativism and parsimony.
According to qualitativism, thisness is not a fundamental feature of reality; facts about particular things are metaphysically second-rate. In this paper, I advance an argument for qualitativism from ideological parsimony. Supposing that reality fundamentally contains an array of propertied things,...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 5; pp. 1361 - 1382 |
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