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Multidimensional Properties: Primitivism vs Reductionism

By: Robert MichelsORCID  
Open Access
|Nov 2025

Abstract

The focus of this paper is on the metaphysical nature of multidimensional properties, properties like virtue, beauty, or health which can be had in different ways and to different degrees. Do such properties form their own sui generis kind, as existing discussions seem to suggest, or can we rather reductively account for them, relying on notions which may already be present in our ontology or ideology? In this paper, I will introduce a reductionist account of multidimensional properties, making a partial case for Reductionism.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/met.189 | Journal eISSN: 2515-8279
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 19, 2024
Accepted on: Sep 25, 2025
Published on: Nov 6, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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