The Repeatability Argument Poses No New Threat for Bundle Theorists: A Reply to Benocci

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (4):826-830 (2020)
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Matteo Benocci [AJP, 2018] has presented a new argument, the Repeatability Argument, against any version of the Bundle Theory that includes a commitment to the principle that concrete particulars constituted by exactly the same universals are identical. In this discussion note, I argue that the Repeatability Argument fails because defenders of the Bundle Theory can reject one of its key steps on principled grounds. I thus conclude that Benocci provides Bundle Theorists with no new threat.

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Benjamin L. Curtis
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