A defence of the conceptualist solution to the “grounding problem” for coincident objects

Authors

  • Ezequiel Zerbudis Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Universidad de Rosario, CONICET, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2020iss16pp41-60

Keywords:

composition, material object, concept, instantiation, modality, kind

Abstract

I consider some of the objections that have been raised against a conceptualist solution to the “grounding problem” (the problem of grounding the sortalish properties of material objects in their non-sortalish ones), I address in particular two objections that I call Conceptual Validity and Instantiation, and I attempt to answer them on behalf of the conceptualist. My response, in a nutshell, is that the first of these objections fails because it ascribes to the conceptualist some commitments that do not really follow from the view’s basic insight, while the second objection also fails because (among other things) it (inadvertently) denies the conceptualist resources that the alternative positions are allowed to use.

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2021-01-21

How to Cite

Zerbudis, E. (2021). A defence of the conceptualist solution to the “grounding problem” for coincident objects. Revista De Humanidades De Valparaíso, (16), 41–60. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2020iss16pp41-60

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No. 16 (2020): No 16 (2020)

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