Quiddytyzm i quidditas w metafizyce analitycznej

• Authors: Lenart Karol

Title variants

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Quidditism and Quiddity in Analytic Metaphysics

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The paper is a survey of contemporary quidditism, understood as two interrelated metaphysical positions — recombinatorial quidditism, which is an account of the nature of possibilities, and individuation quidditism, which is concerned with the problem of how to individuate properties. I have three aims: to examine the commitments and consequences of both views, to investigate the relationships between them, and to sketch the logic of the dispute between structuralism and quidditism. I explain how these views relate to Ramseyan humility, according to which we cannot know the fundamental structure of the world.

Keywords

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QUIDDITISM; PROPERTIES; STRUCTURALISM; CAUSAL POWERS; INDIVIDUATION; POSSIBLE WORLDS; SKEPTICISM

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1(109)
• Pages: 61-84

Contributors

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Lenart Karol

• Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński,