The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraFor bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraImperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraAlthough I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraA truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraIn my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entirely constituted by the universals of the bundle. But the bundle and the instance are two distinct entities. Bundles of universals can be multiply located, but their instances cannot, and particulars are instances of a bundle of universals.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra