In this article the problem of the so-called ‘coinciding objects’, i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something ontologically different from the corresponding ‘piece of stuff’ it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard ‘stuffs’ or ‘substances’ as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind of properties that are called substantial properties. The coincidence problem is resolved by demonstrating that terms for substantially homogeneous things and the corresponding ‘pieces of stuff’ are predicative expressions in an Aristotelian genus-species relationship.
In this paper, I consider several issues related to the concept of iden-tity—the concept that is in many ways related to Heda Festini’s early philosophical interests. I speci fi cally focus on discussion of the issues in Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. I contrast two competing conceptions of identity—the objectual (ac...
A characteristic form of progress in the natural sciences consists in replacing one theory of a domain with another that posits a radically different ontology. I call such episodes “ontological breakthroughs”. They are possible because many natural phenomena can be individuated and re-identified through empirical proce...
Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases. Then, I will show how t...
Eliot Michaelson· Philosophy and Phenomenologi...· 0 citations
The subject of the paper are selected aspects of ontological structures of perfect values in reference to the analyzes and comments of Henryk Elzenberg. The definitions of various types of values and the ontological premises of such definitions are discussed. The subject of attention was also logical relations between...
Descartes'
cogito
argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent
a priori
knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analyse...
Tom Schoonen· Ratio· 0 citations
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