On the Varieties of Abstract Objects

被引:1
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作者
Davies, James E. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
关键词
metaphysics; abstract objects; philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of art;
D O I
10.1080/00048402.2018.1564152
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
I reconcile the spatiotemporal location of repeatable artworks and impure sets with the non-location of natural numbers despite all three being varieties of abstract objects. This is possible because, while the identity conditions for all three can be given by abstraction principles, in the former two cases spatiotemporal location is a congruence for the equivalence relation featuring in the relevant principle, whereas in the latter it is not. I then generalize this to other ?physical? properties like shape, mass, and causal powers.
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页码:809 / 823
页数:15
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