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Full Idea
We will say that the mark of a state of affairs is the fact that it is capable of being accepted.
Gist of Idea
The mark of a state of affairs is that it is capable of being accepted
Source
Roderick Chisholm (Person and Object [1976], 4.2)
Book Ref
Chisholm,Roderick: 'Person and Object' [Open Court 1976], p.117
A Reaction
I find this a quite bewildering proposal. It means that it is impossible for there to be a state of affairs which is beyond human conception, but why commit to that?
| 5465 | Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis] |
| 15809 | A state of affairs pertains to a thing if it implies that it has some property [Chisholm] |
| 15828 | I propose that events and propositions are two types of states of affairs [Chisholm] |
| 15829 | The mark of a state of affairs is that it is capable of being accepted [Chisholm] |
| 18374 | Truthmaking needs states of affairs, to unite particulars with tropes or universals. [Armstrong] |
| 15267 | Events are changes in states of affairs (which consist of structured particulars, with powers and relations) [Harré/Madden] |
| 15543 | How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis] |
| 15009 | We must distinguish 'concrete' from 'abstract' and necessary states of affairs. [Sider] |