%PDF-1.4
%
1 0 obj
<<
/Title (Things, stuffs, and coincidence: A non-ontological point of view)
/Author (Nikos Psarros)
/Creator (PDFCreator Version 1.2.2)
/ModDate (D:20130319004543+01'00')
/Subject (In this article the problem of the so-called coinciding objects, i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something onto-logically different from the corresponding piece of stuff it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard stuffs or substances as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind of properties that are called substantial properties. The coincidence problem is resolved by demonstrating that terms for substantially homogeneous things and the corresponding pieces of stuff are predicative expressions in an Aristotelian genus-species relationship.)
/Keywords (stuffs; substances; coinciding objects; abstraction; predication)
/Producer (GPL Ghostscript 9.02)
/CreationDate (D:20130319004421+01'00')
/PXCViewerInfo (PDF-XChange Viewer;2.5.200.0;Dec 14 2011;19:59:08;D:20130319004543+01'00')
>>
endobj
2 0 obj
<<
/Type /Catalog
/Pages 3 0 R
/Metadata 4 0 R
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<<
/Kids [5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R]
/Type /Pages
/Count 7
>>
endobj
4 0 obj
<<
/Type /Metadata
/Length 4928
/Subtype /XML
>>
stream
GPL Ghostscript 9.02
()
2013-03-19T00:45:43+01:00
2013-03-19T00:44:21+01:00
PDFCreator Version 1.2.2
44fe2d96-9281-11e2-0000-55d97eca8e76
44fe2d96-9281-11e2-0000-55d97eca8e76
application/pdf
Things, stuffs, and coincidence: A non-ontological point of view
Nikos Psarros
In this article the problem of the so-called ‘coinciding objects’, i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something onto-logically different from the corresponding ‘piece of stuff’ it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard ‘stuffs’ or ‘substances’ as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind of properties that are called substantial properties. The coincidence problem is resolved by demonstrating that terms for substantially homogeneous things and the corresponding ‘pieces of stuff’ are predicative expressions in an Aristotelian genus-species relationship.
stuffs
substances
coinciding objects
abstraction
predication
Copyright 2001 by HYLE and Nikos Psarros
True
http://www.hyle.org
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 12 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 13 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
6 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 14 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 15 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
7 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 16 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 17 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
8 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 18 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 19 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
9 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 20 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 21 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
10 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 22 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 23 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
11 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 0
/Contents 24 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842]
/Resources <<
/Font 25 0 R
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
>>
>>
endobj
12 0 obj
<<
/Filter [/FlateDecode]
/Length 4972
>>
stream
x<ۮ$G{Ƈf6n]uJм1rS;3=/)]jAe]vJ1k~rS)fj`B'kB&?()}~?\bH.V>\Ӥu'R)XMi&_nZKIE|Xc~F5Np9;l:SA'"s$.o_PQ#&^/Q>;]B* >jTxT)Ο^w:I@W
d9ERFLtI!fÉ%.&z&b紖}RˋZ'k|4QjZX
zo
's2F *~EE2~5J%NoG{DMtj2U,E(ɂi)odUL!
fP^x|aSYYc'|'k
:"@?9<s`7N
R.;@To=`bחXS)jX^Y>|VDKm~ $GRp-N$,|X,'Ԕ?_dq`=>R26
do vn}N bx059mM0IXAC`DvVtp}>w+'W3 O,9nTF 7
qc|;|":wqgFK,ZCV=ȡއ'#*'h.LO] -\ }80(cfrBr1&R100`;ٔ^`f3#\j@uC*8KcOW;1Tw
%x/_N kh.ʀz{fe'.l_y!s肭%蝛ntfNmUi>FfFXP)EgF{eR"O")Md)dZz^b
-3 qhHj>.9T
uJL$dq7X2UOkHz@ #bࠜ\>ϖ;ԅEQu= ~T ;W-`yQ
6GHŏXe ޢJJTDLSƽc#Rr'Ҡc(֤1.i\`Jڧo@
l#b#6>[pJyX%Pp5%pjsE3 ;`+2qJ7] D>æ %Ҡf+鐢e