Due dogmi dell'ontologia

Vengono discusse due assunzioni tipiche in ontologia, la non-complementarità delle teorie degli oggetti e la tesi che la verità richieda fattori di verità. Segue riassunto in inglese Current ontology implicitly assumes that (i) certain theoretical options regarding the nature of particulars, substrates vs. bundles of universals vs. bundles of tropes, are mutually exclusive. Moreover, there is a long-standing tradition according to which (ii) truths require corresponding truthmakers as ontological grounds. Both theses are typically upheld as conceptual truths on an a priori basis. In spite of this, as regards (ii), we can legitimately interpret some empirical evidence from physics as suggesting that substrates, bundles of tropes and bundles of universals should co-exist in our ontological inventory. Similarly, as regards (ii), it is arguable that it is simply an in principle falsifiable empirical hypothesis that true propositisions about the past or future have truthmakers.