Resembling Particulars: What Nominalism?

Matteo Morganti (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

This paper examines a recent proposal for reviving so-called resemblance nominalism. It is argued that, although consistent, it naturally leads to trope theory upon examination for reasons having to do with the appeal of neutrality as regards certain non-trivial ontological theses.

Mots clés: individuation; nominalism

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Matteo Morganti. Resembling Particulars: What Nominalism?. Metaphysica, 2007, 8 (2), pp.165-178. ⟨halshs-00790993⟩