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- Title
Ontology Generator.
- Authors
Pelman, Alik
- Abstract
The paper proposes a simple method for constructing ontological theories—an 'ontology generator'. It shows that such a generator manages to produce major existing ontological theories, e.g., Realism, Nominalism, Trope theory, Bundle theory, Perdurantism, Endurantism, Possibilism, Actualism and more. It thus turns out, surprisingly, that all these seemingly unrelated different ontological theories that were designed by thinkers hundreds of years apart, can all be generated using the same simple mechanism. Moreover, this same generator manages to produce entirely novel ontological theories, that fare no worse than existing ones in meeting the same common metaphysical challenges.
- Subjects
ONTOLOGY; NOMINALISM; REALISM; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Metaphysica, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
1437-2053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/mp-2022-0015