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- Title
Formal Issues of Trope-Only Theories of Universals.
- Authors
Ferrari, Francesco Maria
- Abstract
The paper discusses some formal difficulties concerning the theory of universals of Trope-Only ontologies, from which the formal theory of predication advanced by Trope-Only theorists seems to be irremediably affected. It is impossible to lay out a successful defense of a Trope-Only theory without Russellian types, but such types are ontologically inconsistent with tropes' nominalism. Historically, Tropists' first way to avoid the problem is appealing to the supervenience claim, which however fails on its terms and, thus, fails as a ground for a solution to the higher-order or 'type' problem. A later solution involves the invariance of primitive equivalence relations in order to make universals ontologically innocuous. However, I argue that this latter solution fails to meet the requirements imposed on an ontologically unbiased nominalist attitude. So, this paper discusses how Trope-Only theories alter standard formal moves in Nominalism, and also is interested in clarifying further the formal assumptions for these problems.
- Subjects
NOMINALISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology); THEORISTS
- Publication
Erkenntnis, 2024, Vol 89, Issue 3, p919
- ISSN
0165-0106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10670-022-00563-5