Substrata and Properties: From Bare Particulars to Supersubstantivalism?

Metaphysica 12 (2):183-195 (2011)
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Abstract

An argument to the effect that, under a few reasonable assumptions, the bare particular ontology is best understood in terms of supersubstativalism: objects are identical to regions of space(-time) and properties directly inhere in space(-time) points or region as their bearers.

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Matteo Morganti
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