On Armstrong’s Radical Absolutism

Julien Tricard
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Abstract Within the metaphysics of quantity, the debate rages between Absolutism and Comparativism. In retrospect, Armstrong appears to be an absolutist, for he claims that magnitudes like being 1 kg in mass are intrinsic properties of particulars, in virtue of which relations like being twice as massive as hold. More importantly, his theory is an instance of what I call ‘Radical Absolutism’ (and the only on the market), for he does not merely argue that relations are grounded in magnitudes, but also (and quite admirably) tries to explain how they “flow from” (his words) the intrinsic features of magnitudes. The goal of the paper is not to support his theory, but to better understand why it fails, and why this must be of concern to contemporary absolutists.
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论阿姆斯特朗的激进专制主义
摘要在数量形而上学中,绝对主义和比较主义之间的争论愈演愈烈。回想起来,阿姆斯特朗似乎是一个绝对主义者,因为他声称质量为1公斤这样的震级是细节的内在性质,因此质量是其两倍这样的关系成立。更重要的是,他的理论是我所说的“激进绝对主义”的一个例子(也是市场上唯一的理论),因为他不仅认为关系是以数量为基础的,而且(非常令人钦佩)试图解释它们是如何“从”(他的话)数量的内在特征“流出来的”。本文的目的不是支持他的理论,而是更好地理解为什么它失败了,以及为什么这必须引起当代专制主义者的关注。
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