The Fragmentation of Being
a perfectly natural property mentioned, being Kris McDaniel is a perfectly natural property. But at least one person has this pr ...
These holes, henceforth hole 1 and hole 2 , are not identical with each other. Now God could have created just one of these univ ...
incapable of thinking of ourselves as less than fully real. When I consider that I might be less than fully real, I experience a ...
What follows in this section will presuppose that there can be practical reasons for belief; I make this assumption to assess wh ...
There is something to this argument even though it is unclear whether it is ultimately successful. But let’s set this aside and ...
we should conclude that transcendental freedom is itself a perfectly natural property. But the possession of a perfectly natural ...
entities enjoy some of their modes of being merely contingently. So the answers to these questions are non-obvious. Let’s provis ...
7. Degrees of Being 7.1 Introduction In chapter 5, we delved into the idea that some things are ontologically superior to others ...
are willing to take the notion of naturalness as a primitive because they recognize that it can be used to define or partially c ...
compelling, ultimately I do not think that they succeed. In section 7.6, I investigate whether there is some reason to prefer ta ...
There are a number of ways toflesh out this view and, depending on what the correct metaphysics of quantities is, different ways ...
Let’s briefly recall how I accounted for degrees of being in earlier chapters. First, I appealed to the notion of asemantically ...
naturalness of the entities that correspond to the constituents of these sentences. The properties that correspond to sentential ...
Armstrong correctly notes that we cannot deny that there are second-class properties because there are true propositions about t ...
can say that there are exactly two Fs by asserting that∃x∃y(Fx&Fy&~x=y& ( 8 zFz!z=xorz=y)). So if there is some sens ...
properties are ontologically on a par withfirst-class properties. By contrast, it is not surprising that past objects have a nat ...
be naturalin terms of the notion of degree of being. The most natural properties are the most real properties. The hierarchy of ...
is either a maximally natural sense of“some”or it is not. If it is a maximally natural sense, then properties exist to the maxim ...
The analysis of naturalness in terms of degrees of being does not presuppose any of these views or any of their denials. One int ...
have two different ways of talking about the same underlying reality. According to the NVH,degrees of naturalnessanddegrees of b ...
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