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

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dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorLegg, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-12T03:25:43Z
dc.date.available2012-01-12T03:25:43Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWe 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 universals themselves: instantiation, subkind and part, and thereby construct three new ‘problems of the one and the many’ (an Eidetic Dispersal Problem, a Genus-Species Problem, and an Eidetic Combination Problem), which are as problematic as the version generally discussed. We then argue that this taxonomy sheds new and interesting light on certain discussions of higher-order universals in recent Australian analytic philosophy.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationGibbons, S. & Legg, C. (2013). Higher-order one-many problems in Plato’s Philebus and recent Australian metaphysics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(1),119-138.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00048402.2011.647769
dc.identifier.issn1471-6828
dc.identifier.issn0004-8402
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/5967
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfAustralasian Journal of Philosophyen_NZ
dc.rightsThis is The Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.en_NZ
dc.subjectPhilebusen_NZ
dc.subjectPlatoen_NZ
dc.subjectone-many problemen_NZ
dc.subjectuniversalen_NZ
dc.subjectFormen_NZ
dc.subjectcombinationen_NZ
dc.titleHigher-order one-many problems in Plato’s Philebus and recent Australian metaphysicsen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page119en_NZ
pubs.elements-id36995
pubs.end-page138en_NZ
pubs.issue1en_NZ
pubs.volume91en_NZ
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