KRIS McDANIEL TROPES AND ORDINARY PHYSICAL OBJECTS
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I argue that a solution to puzzles concerning the relationship of objects and their properties – a version of the ‘bundle’ theory of particulars according to which ordinary objects are mereological fusions of monadic and relational tropes – is also a solution to puzzles of material constitution involving the alleged co-location of material objects. Additionally, two arguments that have played a prominent role in shaping the current debate, Mark Heller’s argument for Four Dimensionalism and Peter van Inwagen’s argument against Mereological Universalism, are shown to be unsound given this version of the bundle theory.
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