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Stuff, Quality, Structure : The Whole Go, Hardback Book

Stuff, Quality, Structure : The Whole Go Hardback

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Stuff, Quality, Structure makes a case for identity metaphysics.

It defends categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category, which Strawson calls 'stuff'.

It argues for the ultimate metaphysical identity of things that other views hold to be irreducibly distinct.

It rejects separatism, which posits such irreducible metaphysical differences.

The notions of object, process, property, state, and event seem to signal fundamental ontological differences, but these differences are superficial, according to identity metaphysics.

The same goes for energy/force/laws of nature/causation/power: according to identity metaphysics, these are different ways of conceptualizing the same phenomenon, the best name for which is simply 'the nature of stuff'.

More particularly: identity metaphysics opposes (1) object-property separatism and (2) stuff-law separatism.

It then denies that (1) and (2) themselves are fundamentally different issues.

Strawson also endorses 'stuff monism', the view that there is only one kind of fundamental stuff, and favours 'thing monism', the view that there is only one fundamental entity in reality.

He then considers the place of the notion of structure in an account of concrete reality.

Structure considered just as such is an abstract, wholly logico-mathematically characterizable phenomenon.

If a structure is concretely realized it must be realized by something that isn't itself just a matter of structure.

It is arguable, nevertheless, that a thing's structural nature may--and perhaps must--completely fix its non-structural nature in any world, or at least in any world to which the notion of structure is generally applicable.

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