Gary Rosenkrantz,Joshua Hoffman

Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics

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  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Categories are of explanatory value in metaphysics partly because a category is an essential kind: a kind such that, necessarily, whatever belongs to it belongs to it essentially.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    However, a nonspatial spirit or soul would be a concrete entity of an atypical sort that lacks spatial or temporal parts.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    (D1) x is a concrete entity = df. x belongs to an ontological category (at Level C) that has among its possible instances entities having spatial or temporal parts,6 and (D2) x is an abstract entity = df. x is not a concrete entity
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    It is an interesting question when a kind is too specific to count as an ontological category.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Subdivisions of the category of substance (at Level D) might include physical object and spirit, subdivisions of boundary might include surface and edge, and so on.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Pairs, trios, and quartets of substances of which those substances are parts are collections (within mereology, or the theory of parts, one calls a collection of this kind a mereological sum or fusion).
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Holes, shadows, and gaps are absences (also known as privations).
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    Surfaces, edges, and corners are boundaries (also known as limits).
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Instants and durations are times.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Extended spatial regions and points are places.
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