Propiedades determinables, propiedades determinadas y semejanza

Abstract

The present work discusses whether the relation of 'determination' —i. e. the relation between determinable and determinate properties— can be explained by defenders of resemblance nominalism and trope ontologies. In both cases, the characteristics of the relation of determination should be founded in primitive resemblance relations either between objects, or between tropes. After presenting the main requirements of the determination relation, and three theories based on universals that try to explain it, it is argued that conceptions based on resemblances between objects or tropes should postulate uneconomical necessary and primitive connections between resemblances, but also —what is more serious— it is argued that they should construe the resemblance classes by which determinable properties are given in a way that cannot avoid the traditional problems of the 'imperfect community' and the 'companionship'.

Keywords:

Nominalismo de semejanza

propiedades determinables

propiedades determinadas

semejanza

universales

Resemblance nominalism

determinable properties

determinate properties

resemblance

universals

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