Persistence of Simple Substances

Keinänen, Markku; Hakkarainen, Jani

doi:10.1007/s12133-010-0063-1

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“…4 The problem of the persistence of tropes overlaps both questions. We have discussed it in Keinänen & Hakkarainen (2010). 5 As such, being an individual differs from being a particular, which are distinct category-features of entities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Problem of Trope Individuation: A Reply to Lowe

Keinänen

Hakkarainen

2013

Erkenn

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This paper is the first trope-theoretical reply to E.J. Lowe's serious dilemma against trope nominalism in print. The first horn of this dilemma is that if tropes are identity dependent on substances, a vicious circularity threatens trope theories because they must admit that substances are identity dependent on their constituent tropes.According to the second horn, if the trope theorist claims that tropes are identity independent, she faces two insurmountable difficulties. (1) It is hard to understand the ontological dependence of tropes on substances. (2) The identity-conditions of tropes cannot be determinate, which threatens the determination of the identityconditions of substances. Our reply to the first horn of Lowe's dilemma is to deny the identity dependence of tropes. Yet we can avoid the second horn because our theory

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Problem of Trope Individuation: A Reply to Lowe

Keinänen

Hakkarainen

2013

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“…First, the ability to persist and having a mereological structure are independent characteristics and so persistence is compatible with lack of part-structure. There is nothing inconsistent with mereologically atomic entities that nevertheless may stay numerically the same despite changes concerning their properties (see Keinänen and Hakkarainen 2010).…”

Section: Mereology and Visionmentioning

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The nonclassical mereology of olfactory experiences

Skrzypulec

2019

Synthese

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While there is a growing philosophical interest in analysing olfactory experiences, the mereological structure of odours considered in respect of how they are perceptually experienced has not yet been extensively investigated. The paper argues that odours are perceptually experienced as having a mereological structure, but this structure is significantly different from the spatial mereological structure of visually experienced objects. Most importantly, in the case of the olfactory part-structure, the classical weak supplementation principle is not satisfied. This thesis is justified by referring to empirical results in olfactory science concerning the human ability to identify components in complex olfactory stimuli. Further, it is shown how differences between olfactory and visual mereologies may arise from the way in which these modalities represent space.

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“…A.-S. Maurin (2002), J. Heil (2003, M. Keinänen (2005;2011) and M. Keinänen & J. Hakkarainen (2010;.…”

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Nominalism about Properties

Guigon¹,

Rodríguez-Pereyra²

2015

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As Lorne Falkenstein has pointed out, scholarship on Hume's account of space and time has taken giant steps forward in the past 20 years. Previously, even sympathetic Hume scholars, such as Norman Kemp Smith and Charles Hendel, criticised Hume's account on partly inadequate grounds and focused on the finite divisibility of space and time. Nowadays, our understanding of A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1 (1739), part 2, in which Hume puts forward his account of spatial properties, is both more accurate and wide-ranging, thanks to the work of

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Persistence of Simple Substances

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

The Problem of Trope Individuation: A Reply to Lowe

The Problem of Trope Individuation: A Reply to Lowe

The nonclassical mereology of olfactory experiences

Nominalism about Properties

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