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Resemblance Nominalism

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
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      Gardeners, poets, lovers, and philosophers are all interested in the redness of roses; but only philosophers wonder how it is that two different roses can share the same property. Are red things red because they resemble each other? Or do they resemble each other because they are red? Since the 1970s philosophers have tended to favour the latter view, and held that a satisfactory account of properties must involve the postulation of either universals or tropes. But Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra revives the dormant alternative theory of resemblance nominalism, showing first that it can withstand the attacks of such eminent opponents as Goodman and Armstrong, and then that there are reasons to prefer it to its rival theories The clarity and rigour of his arguments aims to challenge metaphysicians to rethink their views on properties.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra EAN: 9780199243778 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 448 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-07-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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      Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford.
      Gardeners, poets, lovers, and philosophers are all interested in the redness of roses; but only philosophers wonder how it is that two different roses can share the same property. Are red things red because they resemble each other? Or do they resemble each other because they are red? Since the 1970s philosophers have tended to favour the latter view, and held that a satisfactory account of properties must involve the postulation of either universals or tropes. But Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra revives the dormant alternative theory of resemblance nominalism, showing first that it can withstand the attacks of such eminent opponents as Goodman and Armstrong, and then that there are reasons to prefer it to its rival theories The clarity and rigour of his arguments aims to challenge metaphysicians to rethink their views on properties.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra EAN: 9780199243778 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 448 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-07-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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      Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford.

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