A Critical Analysis of Current Characterizations of Categorical Properties: Their Insufficiencies in Addressing the Individuation Regress in Dispositionalism.
Dispositionalism confronts the well‐known challenge of the regress of the individuation of dispositional properties. Proposed solutions to this issue can be broadly categorised into two types: Alexander Bird's holistic‐graph approach, which asserts that dispositional properties can be uniquely indiv...
| Publicado en: | Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 1 - 12 |
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Jun2025
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