A 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-PereyraThe problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraBy arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.
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-PereyraImperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraI decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra