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Examining the facts

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Jan Faye
  • Uwe Scheffler
  • Max Urchs

Summary, in English

Facts are once again put to work in philosophical enterprises. The discussion in this paper is conducted under the presumption that we for this reason need to examine the nature of facts anew. To some extent it has been taken for granted that the question of properties and particulars is the primary problem to solve, and that the question of facts is secondary. This approach naturally leads to many of the old problems of facts and complexes. By taking facts as truly basic, we should see how we can construct the particulars and universals we still have need for. In order to further this idea, I suggest that facts may be though of as tropes or once-for-all occurrent properties. However, this characterisation of facts is acceptable only if tropes manage without substances or "thin" particulars for their instantiation.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2000

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

87-107

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Things, facts and events

Volym

76

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. Rodopi

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Nyckelord

  • tropes
  • universals
  • facts

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-90-420-1533-3