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Single Idea 15150

[from 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' by Richard Boyd, in 26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds ]

Full Idea

Boyd's homeostatic mechanisms are not responsible for the co-instantiation of the mass, charge and spin of an electron.

Gist of Idea

The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering'

Source

comment on Richard Boyd (Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa [1999]) by Anjan Chakravarrty - Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences 3


A Reaction

I would have thought that no one has the foggiest idea (unless I have missed something?) about why electrons have those three properties. What is it about electrons that makes them do that? Explanations always run out somewhere. Substratum!

Related Idea

Idea 15149 Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]