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Examining the facts

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Author

Editor

  • Jan Faye
  • Uwe Scheffler
  • Max Urchs

Summary, in English

Facts are once again put to work in philosophical enterprises. The discussion in this paper is conducted under the presumption that we for this reason need to examine the nature of facts anew. To some extent it has been taken for granted that the question of properties and particulars is the primary problem to solve, and that the question of facts is secondary. This approach naturally leads to many of the old problems of facts and complexes. By taking facts as truly basic, we should see how we can construct the particulars and universals we still have need for. In order to further this idea, I suggest that facts may be though of as tropes or once-for-all occurrent properties. However, this characterisation of facts is acceptable only if tropes manage without substances or "thin" particulars for their instantiation.

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

87-107

Publication/Series

Things, facts and events

Volume

76

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. Rodopi

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • tropes
  • universals
  • facts

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-90-420-1533-3