Simplicity : a meta-metaphysics / Craig Dilworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simplicity (Philosophy).

Hermeneutics.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

xiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Summary:

Simplicity presents a new, wide-ranging philosophical theory, one that concerns how reality is conceived. In so doing it also provides a new logic with which to approach conceptual situations. Craig Dilworth replaces the dualistic, true/false approach of formal logic with a three-part basis for thought. This basis consists of the categories of simplicity, complexity, and nothingness. The category of simplicity is paradoxical, while that of complexity is unproblematic, and that of nothingness is self-contradictory. When applied to ontological categories, such as those of substance, self, or causality, these categories of reason can be used to resolve, rather than solve, intellectual issues involving the ontological categories in question. Book jacket.

Contents:

What is philosophy?

Simplicity

Various kinds of category and principle

Ontology vs. epistemology

Understanding vs. knowledge

Fundamental conceptual principles

Non-physical dimensions

Language

Set theory

Paradox

Empiricism vs. rationalism

Empiricism vs. realism

Special theory of relativity

Quantum mechanics

God

Ethics

Love, death, and aesthetics

Buddhist philosophy

Taoist philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

ISBN:

9780739177235

0739177230

9780739177242

0739177249

OCLC:

809789657