Quotes by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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 a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.

Entity

Propositions

Virtue

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

Cases

Philosophical

Very Good

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley’s Principles from my father’s library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Book

Father

Philosophy

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 defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.

Doe

Identity

Principles

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 distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.

Bundles

Identity

Principles

I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.

Character

Philosophy

Teacher

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 theory.

Believe

Bundles

Theory

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Errors

Mind

Thinking

I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about ‘identical stones’ are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.

Boys

Philosophical

Teenager

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Class

Community

Imperfect

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Discipline

Doe

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Entity

Errors

Fall

Father

Giving

Identity

Imperfect

Latter

Majority

Mean

Mind

Misunderstood

Philosophical

Philosophy

Principles

Propositions

Reality

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Roots

Should

Space

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Quotes by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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 a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley’s Principles from my father’s library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

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 defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.

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 distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.

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 theory.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

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