Single Idea 15550

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties]

Full Idea

Armstrong has a distinctive conception of (fundamental) properties as contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time.

Gist of Idea

Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time

Source

report of David M. Armstrong (A World of States of Affairs [1997]) by David Lewis - A world of truthmakers? p.220

Book Reference

Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.220


A Reaction

Armstrong tries to get a naturalistically founded platonism (which he claims is Aristotelian), but the idea that one thing can be multiply located strikes me as daft (especially if the number of its locations increases or decreases).