Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational rol…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defe…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, sp…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically di…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the eff…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entire…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra