ABSTRACT
In contrast to individualistic facts, which concern particular individuals, qualitative facts make no mention of any particular individual. A little more precisely, a fact is individualistic if whether it obtains depends on how things stand with a particular individual, and qualitative otherwise. Individualism is a seductive view: it is natural to think that the most fundamental facts of the world concern how a variety of individuals are propertied and related. Starting with the charge of undetectability, the idea is that a primitive individual is 'hidden' behind its qualities. Perhaps the most well-known qualitativist view is the traditional bundle theory, according to which the fundamental facts about the world concern which qualitative properties are 'compresent'. Thus, if a particular individual is red and round, the bundle theory says that the fundamental fact about the situation is that redness and roundness are com- present.
