Location and Properties

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the motivations one might have for locating universals and/or tropes in spacetime, namely: naturalism; properties being constituents of concreta; spatiotemporal location playing a role in trope individuation; and the self-instantiation of properties. It then discusses which regions of spacetime universals would be located at were they to be located. Would universals be multiply located? What, precisely, do we mean by ‘multiple location’? Are there sound arguments against the multiple location of universals? What is the alternative to universals being multiply located? Finally, the chapter ends by discussing which regions of spacetime tropes would be located at.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Properties
EditorsA.R.J. Fisher, Anna-Sofia Maurin
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter13
Pages148-158
Number of pages11
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781003246077
ISBN (Print)9781032158761
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Dec 2023

Publication series

NameRoutledge Handbooks in Philosophy
PublisherRoutledge

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