Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory

Simple monadic theories and indiscernibl

Simple monadic theories and indiscernibles

✍ Achim Blumensath 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 228 KB

Aiming for applications in monadic second-order model theory, we study first-order theories without definable pairing functions. Our main results concern forking-properties of sequences of indiscernibles. These turn out to be very well-behaved for the theories under consideration.

Individuation and the Bundle Theory

✍ Michael Losonsky 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 416 KB

Material Coincidence and the Indiscernib

Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Program

✍ Olson, Eric 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 439 KB

Three versions of the bundle theory

✍ James Cleve 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 743 KB

A thing (individual, concrete particular) is nothing but a bundle of properties'. If we take it as it stands, this traditional metaphysical view is open to several familiar and, to my mind, decisive objections. Sophisticated upholders of the tradition, such as Russell and Castafieda, do not take it

The indiscernibility of identicals and t

The indiscernibility of identicals and the relativity of identity

✍ Douglas Odegard 📂 Article 📅 1978 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 220 KB

A fourth version of the bundle theory

✍ Albert Casullo 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 780 KB