Metaphysics Study Quotes by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra