The Nuclear Theory of Trope Bundles

José Tomás Alvarado

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9_12

The Nuclear Theory of Trope Bundles

José Tomás Alvarado^*

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The previous chapter has discussed the main alternatives for the conception of particular objects. The problems that affect theories of trope-bundles have led to the idea of ‘pregnant wholes’ originally proposed by Husserl. This chapter considers in more detail the ‘nuclear’ theory of pregnant wholes defended by Peter Simons in a series of works. The nuclear theory preserves the advantages of the ‘pregnant wholes’ and correct some of its problems. Nevertheless, the nuclear theory faces important additional complications. On the one hand, it has to face the problem of ‘substantial change’. On the other hand, nuclear bundles of tropes are built by connections of ontological dependence between tropes, but these connections violate basic requirements of irreflexivity, asymmetry and transitivity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Synthese Library
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	287-310
Number of pages	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9_12
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Synthese Library
Volume	428
ISSN (Print)	0166-6991
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-8292

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