Abstract
Something exists if and only if it is individuated. Individuation requires judging with the appropriate concepts. Experiencing is nothing over and above making judgments about reality. All concepts relate to each other within coherent and adequate frameworks of explanation. Call such a framework a story, whose concepts are its roles. Coherent and adequate stories about reality are empirically indefeasible. To individuate something is to situate it within a world. Call a world the environment of things identified and implied by a story. There is more than one such coherent and adequate story about reality. There is more than one world. What exists in one world does not exist in another. What exists is relative to worlds and dependent on the stories which create them. Nothing exists beyond these worlds. Therefore, what exists and how it exists are dependent on our stories, immanent to its worlds.
Advisor
Thomson, Garrett
Department
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Son, Nam, "Plato" (2025). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 11270.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/11270
Disciplines
Metaphysics
Publication Date
2025
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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