Particulares nus: uma defesa da teoria do substrato

Abstract

The present work aims to present the debate of the bare particulars proposal and its critics. We seek here to discuss how the thesis of Bare Particulars is presented today by taking the works of proponents of this thesis. In the following we will present the most current criticisms that are raised upon the thesis and how these criticisms arise based on realism, and specifically from defenders of the bundle theory, that aim to discredit the study of any particular substratum. Finally, we will seek answers to the criticisms and how the defense of the thesis is presented, grounding also from the current literature. Based on the debate between the position of Bare Particulars and the bundle theory, we will seek to defend the theory of the substrate as the simplest way to highlight the identity of objects without incurring in the error of Leibniz’s Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles.