Now, if tropes are individuated with reference to their spatiotemporal position if SI is accepted the possibility of piling is immediately blocked.
Fodor begins by introducing the constraint that he calls "methodological individualism," viz., "the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers" (1987, 42).
The important point here is that a space of possibilities already comes with a structure and the points in such a space cannot be individuated without reference to rest of the space and its structure.
It is important to note that rather than merely reducing item visibility, the combination of forward and simultaneous masking specifically affected the rate at which objects were individuated: At short SOAs, only one object could be individuated, while with increasing SOAs, object capacity increased in steps (Wutz, Caramazza, & Melcher, 2012).
Whether the biological status of an object can influence the ease with which it can be individuated as a target to be tracked remains an open question.
The results indicate that four main clusters could be individuated in the interaction map and summarized into significant interactions with the other proteins in the map.
A phenotypic profile where headache frequency concurs with anxiety, sleep disturbance, and pericranial tenderness should be individuated to detect the development of diffuse pain in headache patients.
The idea is that 'cat' and 'dog' may both be individuated by the same criterion, so the fundamental criterion is not only associated with them but with a number of other substance sortals that fall under the same ultimate sortal.
A problem with this strategy is that it is not clear just how narrow content is to be individuated.
Propositions or propositionally structured entities will be individuated just as finely as we want them to be individuated, and at each level of resolution there will be facts or fact-like entities, individuated to the same resolution, for them to be identical with, if true.
