Instantiation as location.
Many familiar forms of property realism identify properties with sui generis ontological categories like universals or tropes and posit a fundamental instantiation relation that unifies objects with their properties. In this paper, I develop and defend locationism, which identifies properties with l...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 167; no. 3; pp. 667 - 683 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2014
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