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Poll: What are substances?
A follow-up to my properties poll. Still trying to find out where everyone stands:
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Re: Poll: What are substances?
Modified Aristotelian view: substances are unified imminentizing Form.
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Both polls are still open.
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I need more time to vote. To those who believe in the existence of bare/thin particulars, how do you establish their existence?
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Dennis wrote:
To those who believe in the existence of bare/thin particulars, how do you establish their existence?
To make a long story short, people posit thin particulars to solve the problem of individuation.
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Other: Single continuum. (Spiritual monism)
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Well, I take universals to be the substances of the world and that individuation is a matter of haeccitas (Other). I suppose I'm taking this to be a primitive, and I'm going to change my mind sooner rather than later. If this commits me to something like Bundle-theory for now, so be it, but that's my position (for now).
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Well, I take universals to be the substances of the world and that individuation is a matter of haeccitas (Other). I suppose I'm taking this to be a primitive, and I'm going to change my mind sooner rather than later. If this commits me to something like Bundle-theory for now, so be it, but that's my position (for now).
I shall check you in the bare particulars row. 
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I shall check you in the bare particulars row.
I thought I was going to be the only one who chooses bare particulars so this is a pleasant surprise.
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Other: Single continuum. (Spiritual monism)
Well, even Hegelians and Spinozists hold that the whole, or whatever is a substance in some sense. Since I'm tempted to monism I didn't want to bake-in a determination about plurality into my thought about substance.
Fighting to the death "the noonday demon" of Acedia.
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It is precisely “values” that are the powerless and threadbare mask of the objectification of beings, an objectification that has become flat and devoid of background. No one dies for mere values.
~Martin Heidegger