Abstract

ALVARADO MARAMBIO, José Tomás. Determinable properties, determined properties and likeness. discus.filos [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.24, pp.129-162. ISSN 0124-6127.

The present work discusses whether the relation of 'determination' -i. e. the relation between determinable and determinate properties- can be explained by defenders of resemblance nominalism and trope ontologies. In both cases, the characteristics of the relation of determination should be founded in primitive resemblance relations either between objects, or between tropes. After presenting the main requirements of the determination relation, and three theories based on universals that try to explain it, it is argued that conceptions based on resemblances between objects or tropes should postulate uneconomical necessary and primitive connections between resemblances, but also -what is more serious- it is argued that they should construe the resemblance classes by which determinable properties are given in a way that cannot avoid the traditional problems of the 'imperfect community' and the 'companionship'.

Keywords : Resemblance nominalism; determinable properties; determinate properties; resemblance; universals.

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