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What universals essentially are

Philipp Keller

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June 10, 2011

Properties as what grounds how things are

“…if the notion of non-numerical identity turns out to be unanalyzable, then presumably we ought to accept it with natural piety as an irreducible feature of the world. And to accept irreducible non-numerical identity is to accept universals.” (?: 251)

Property identities

Identity statements that are really about kinds:

(1) Red is George’s favourite colour.

Property identities:

the property of being red = the property of being of George’s favourite colour (2)

being red = being of George’s favourite colour (3)

how, ipso facto, red things are = how, ipso fact, things are that are of George’s favourite colour (4)

Rigidified ‘singular’ terms:

Property as transworld individuals The essence of properties

The internality of exemplification and its adverbial modifications

*Département de Philosophie, Université de Genève, Switzerland,T?BHBTTXF2HH2`!mMB;2X+?.

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