The Reformed Nuclear Theory

José Tomás Alvarado

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9_13

The Reformed Nuclear Theory

José Tomás Alvarado^*

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Synthese Library
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	311-345
Number of pages	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9_13
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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