A Puzzle About Parsimony

In this paper, I argue for the instability of an increasingly popular position about how metaphysicians ought to regard parsimony. This instability is rooted in an unrecognized tension between two claims. First, we as metaphysicians ought to minimize the number of ontological kinds we posit. Second...

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Main Author: Peter Finocchiaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Philosophie.ch 2022-11-01
Series:Dialectica
Online Access:https://dialectica.philosophie.ch/dialectica/article/view/34