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Robust reality : an essay in formal ontology / George Englebretsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Englebretsen, George.
- Series:
- Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 46.
- Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reality.
- Ontology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn't give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Seiendes : structural ontology
- pt. 2. Metaphysics au Monde.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-86838-133-3
- 3-11-032582-9
- OCLC:
- 851971924
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