(11.) On that account, one of the substance
sortals satisfied by an object is its dominant
sortal, meaning the
sortal that supplies the object's identity criterion.
Distinguish between absolute identity ('A is the sam as B') and sortal-relative identity ('A is the same F as B', where 'F' is a
sortal).
She contends that only reifying terms, that is, noun phrases that introduce an abstract object by means of a
sortal term plus a nonreferential expression, such as, for example, "the number two" or "the color green," refer to abstract objects.
En segundo lugar, y en consonancia con esta primera idea, la apelacion a una clasificacion determinada del objeto bajo un concepto
sortal. (6) Por lo tanto, una propiedad discriminadora tiene por fuerza que ser una propiedad identificatoria: una propiedad que apele a conceptos necesarios para la identificacion de los objetos, esto es, a los conceptos
sortales adecuados para cada tipo de objeto.
He argues that certain non-repeatable particulars like unique gestures located in a particular spatio-temporal frame of reference, which come and go, are to be included among
sortal universals.
Some dozen of these dispositional predicates are frequent and may have a distinct status (this may mirror the
sortal vs.
The first sort of power has been called an "individual" or extrinsic power; the second, a "
sortal" or intrinsic power.
In the present context of Dummettian logicism, the idea is that the identity symbol has to be attached to a
sortal, and so a sentence like (Two) is elliptical.
For example, an object's mass and shape seem to supervene in this way; its mental properties (if it has any) and its
sortal properties seem to as well.(4) this is the doctrine of microphysical supervenience.
The key to the thesis is an indeterminacy in the reference of
sortal predicates, as illustrated by Quine's imagined native word 'gavagai' ([1960], p.
Sense-perception per se cannot recognize even individual substances as such, since it has no access to any
sortal concepts like man, horse, tree.