What’s in a name? Qualitativism and parsimony

IF 1.1 1区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI:10.1007/s11098-024-02280-x

Daniel S. Murphy

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Abstract

According to qualitativism, thisness is not a fundamental feature of reality; facts about particular things are metaphysically second-rate. In this paper, I advance an argument for qualitativism from ideological parsimony. Supposing that reality fundamentally contains an array of propertied things, non-qualitativists employ a distinct name (or constant) for each fundamental thing. I argue that these names encode a type of worldly structure (thisness structure) that offends against parsimony and that qualitativists can eliminate without incurring a comparable parsimony-offense.

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名字里有什么？质变论和简约论

根据质变主义，这不是现实的基本特征；关于特定事物的事实在形而上学上是次等的。在本文中，我从意识形态的简约出发，提出了一种定性主义的论证。假设现实从根本上包含了一系列有属性的事物，非定性主义者为每个基本事物使用一个独特的名称（或常数）。我认为，这些名字编码了一种世俗结构（这种结构），它违背了节俭，而定性主义者可以在不招致类似的节俭冒犯的情况下消除这种结构。

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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES PHILOSOPHY-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

7.70%

发文量

127

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