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The Abstract and the Concrete
- Further Essays in Ontology
Engelsk Hardback
The Abstract and the Concrete
- Further Essays in Ontology
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The Abstract and the Concrete presents nine essays in ontology by Peter van Inwagen. Three of the essays concern topics in meta-ontology: the idea of multiple modes of being; Carnap''s idea that the questions of "ontology," insofar as they are meaningful at all, are questions about which linguistic frameworks it is expedient to employ; the concept of one object''s being metaphysically more fundamental that another. Three of the essays concern various topics that pertain to the author''s "lower-case" or "lightweight" platonism. (According to lightweight platonism, there are attributes-necessarily existent universals. These attributes are not constituents of substances, they cannot enter into causal relations, and it is false that an F object is F in virtue of instantiating the attribute of being F.) The remaining three essays examine proposed answers to particular ontological questions: the question of the validity of mathematical fictionalism; the question whether it is analytic that at any place at which some xs are arranged chairwise, there is there a chair; the question of what it means to say that colour is an illusion, and whether (in the sense determined) colour is an illusion.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780192870452
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0192870459
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2024
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2024
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