A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filosofía e Antropoloxía
dc.contributor.authorGracia Di Rienzo, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-17T08:52:04Z
dc.date.available2026-04-17T08:52:04Z
dc.date.issued2026-01-21
dc.description.abstractI examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co-instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different categories do not belong to the category of any of their parts, and (5) there is at least a property necessarily instantiated by every individual. I prove that this package of views entails that there is exactly one property. Since this conclusion is highly implausible, I will discuss some ways of modifying the package in order to avoid it.
dc.description.peerreviewedSI
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by Minsterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Ministry of Universities), Spain (FPU20/07620—pre- doctoral research grant and PID2020-115482GB-I00—grant received by the research group Episteme at University of Santiago de Compostela).
dc.identifier.citationDi Rienzo, A. G. (2026). A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties. Ratio, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.70017
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/rati.70017
dc.identifier.essn1467-9329
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/46766
dc.journal.titleRatio: An international journal of analytic philosophy
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final9
dc.page.initial1
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-115482GB-I00/ES/CONCEPCIONES DEFLACIONARIAS EN ONTOLOGIA Y METAONTOLOGIA
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1111/rati.70017
dc.rights© 2026 The Author(s). Ratio published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectExistence monism
dc.subjectMereology
dc.subjectMonism
dc.subjectProperties
dc.subject.classification11 Lógica
dc.titleA Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties
dc.typejournal article
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