Bundle Theory’s Black Box: Gap Challenges for the Bundle Theory of Substance

Bundle Theory’s Black Box: Gap Challenges for the Bundle Theory of Substance
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束理论的黑匣子:束物质理论的差距挑战

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2014
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Robert K. Garcia
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我在这篇文章中的目的是为评估不同实体理论的相对优点的更大项目做出贡献。这个项目的一个重要的初步步骤是评估一个主要的物质理论,所谓的捆绑理论的解释资源。本文就是针对这样一种评价而展开的。我确定并解释了三个不同的解释挑战,一个适当的捆绑理论必须满足。每一个都指向一个假定的解释差距,所以我称之为差距挑战。我认为三个斗争理论的战略,以满足这些挑战。我认为他们都没有走得很远。其结果是,由于缺乏其他应对挑战的策略,捆绑理论涉及大量的规定。这个黑盒子使得束理论相对于它的解释力来说是比较弱的,当然,除非与之竞争的实体理论不能做得更好。
My aim in this article is to contribute to the larger project of assessing the relative merits of different theories of substance. An important preliminary step in this project is assessing the explanatory resources of one main theory of substance, the so-called bundle theory. This article works towards such an assessment. I identify and explain three distinct explanatory challenges an adequate bundle theory must meet. Each points to a putative explanatory gap, so I call them the Gap Challenges. I consider three bundle-theoretic strategies for meeting these challenges. I argue that none of them goes very far. The upshot is that, absent other strategies for meeting the challenges, bundle theory involves a significant amount of stipulation. This black box makes bundle theory relatively weak with respect to its explanatory power—unless, of course, rival theories of substance are unable to do better.
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