Ontology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Constituent ontologies vs blob theories=== ''Constituent ontologies'' and ''blob theories'', sometimes referred to as ''relational ontologies'', are concerned with the internal structure of objects. Constituent ontologies hold that objects have an internal structure made up of constituents. This is denied by opposing theories, which contend that objects are [[homogeneity|homogeneous]], internally indifferentiable "[[wikt:blob|blobs]]".<ref name="Inwagen">{{cite journal |last=Inwagen |first=Peter van |title=Relational Vs. Constituent Ontologies |journal=Philosophical Perspectives |date=2011 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=389β405 |doi=10.1111/j.1520-8583.2011.00221.x |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/VANRVC |via=PhilPapers |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221007145421/https://philpapers.org/rec/VANRVC |archive-date= Oct 7, 2022 }}</ref><ref name=Bradley/><ref>{{cite book |last=Vallicella |first=William F. |title=A Paradigm Theory of Existence: Onto-Theology Vindicated |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |page=88 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/VALAPT-2 |chapter=III The 'No Difference' Theory|year=2002 }}</ref> [[Bundle theory|Bundle theories]] are examples of constituent ontologies. Bundle theorists assert that an object is nothing but the properties it "has". On this account, a regular apple could be characterized as a bundle of redness, roundness, sweetness, etc. Defenders of bundle theory disagree on the nature of the bundled properties. Some affirm that these properties are universals while others contend that they are particulars, so-called "tropes".<ref name=Bradley/><ref>{{cite web |last=Robinson |first=Howard |title=Substance |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/#BundTheoVersSubsThinPart |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2020}}</ref> Class [[nominalism]], on the other hand, is a form of blob theory. Class nominalists hold that properties are classes of things. To instantiate a property is merely to be a member of the corresponding class. So properties are not constituents of the objects that have them.<ref name=Bradley/><ref>{{cite web |last=Rodriguez-Pereyra |first=Gonzalo |title=Nominalism in Metaphysics |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics/#NomAboUni |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2019}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page