The Reformed Nuclear Theory
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2020
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This chapter discusses the ‘reformed’ nuclear theory of trope bundles. The main difference of the reformed theory with the theory considered above is that the nucleus of a bundle is constituted by a unique nuclear trope. The reformed nuclear theory does not require a relation of ontological dependence with especial, non-standard characteristics. Even more, the unique nuclear trope is a substratum. The reformed nuclear theory is, then, a conception in which particular objects are, at the same time, a bundle of tropes, and have a substratum. Finally, structural nuclear bundles are considered in connection to the requirements that have motivated forms of ‘ontic structural realism’ in philosophy of physics.
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Primitive facts of resemblance, Inductive practices, Resemblance classes of module tropes, Modal metaphysics, Objections against transcendent universals, Transcendent universals