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    Rodriguez-Pereyra

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    Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is a contemporary Argentine-British metaphysician and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his systematic defense of resemblance nominalism as a solution to the problem of universals, and for significant contributions to truthmaker theory, including analysis of negative truths and the grounds of modal claims.

    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals' (2002), a landmark defense of nominalism

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    Developed influential arguments in truthmaker theory, including analysis of negative truths and truthmaker maximalism

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    Contributed to debates on Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles

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    Articulated the optimalist account of negative truths and defended it against informativeness objections

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    Advanced the metaphysics of properties and sparse vs. abundant property distinctions

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    The lack of informativeness is not a good objection to the optimalist account of negative truths

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