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This paper introduces Austere Nominalist Dispositional Essentialism, a new nominalist approach to properties and natural modalities. It offers a nominalist framework for dispositional essentialism, avoiding ontological commitments to universals or tropes.

Keywords:
Causal NominalismDispositional EssentialismEssenceGeneric essenceLaws of natureNominalismPowers

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  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Science

Background:

  • Dispositional Essentialism posits that fundamental properties confer causal roles and generate natural modalities.
  • This view is traditionally considered incompatible with nominalism due to its realist property commitments (universals or tropes).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore and present a nominalist version of Dispositional Essentialism.
  • To develop an account that avoids traditional realist property ontologies.

Main Methods:

  • Proposing Austere Nominalist Dispositional Essentialism.
  • Eschewing properties (universals, tropes, sets of particulars) in favor of fundamental predicative truths.
  • Utilizing a generic notion of essence.

Main Results:

  • The proposed account offers a nominalist framework for dispositional essentialism.
  • It is argued to be closer to the core ideas of Dispositional Essentialism than existing nominalist accounts.
  • The view is presented as immune to key problems affecting prior nominalist approaches.

Conclusions:

  • Austere Nominalist Dispositional Essentialism provides a viable nominalist alternative.
  • This approach re-evaluates the ontological commitments of dispositional essentialism.
  • The generic notion of essence is key to this nominalist formulation.