Higher-order one-many problems in Plato’s Philebus and recent Australian metaphysics

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Higher-order one-many problems in Plato’s Philebus and recent Australian metaphysics

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We discuss the one-many problem as it appears in the Philebus and find that it is not restricted to the usually understood problem about the identity of universals across particulars that instantiate them (the Hylomorphic Dispersal Problem). In fact some of the most interesting aspects of the problem occur purely with respect to the relationship between Forms. We argue that contemporary metaphysicians may draw from the Philebus at least three different one-many relationships between universal...

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2013

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5967

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Philebus / Plato / one-many problem / universal / Form / combination

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