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The elements and patterns of being : essays in metaphysics / Donald C. Williams ; edited by A.R.J. Fisher.
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- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Donald Cary, 1899-1983, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Ontology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover; The Elements and Patterns of Being: Essays in Metaphysics; Copyrighth; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1: The Duty of Philosophy (c.1965); 2: The Elements of Being (1953); 3: Universals and Existents (1960); 4: Universal Concepts and Particular Processes (1962); 5: How Reality is Reasonable (1974); 6: Necessary Facts (1963); The Physiology of Facts; Intrinsic and Extrinsic Relations; Necessity and Contingency; Abstracta and Universals; The Concrete and the General; Confessions and Anticipations; 7: Dispensing with Existence (1962)
- 8: The Sea Fight Tomorrow (1951)9: The Myth of Passage (1951); 10: The Nature of Time (1966); Appendix on Time Travel; 11: The Shape of Time (1968); 12: The Bugbear of Fate (1974); References; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: WILLIAMS, DONALD C. ELEMENTS AND PATTERNS OF BEING.
- ISBN:
- 9780192538352
- 0192538357
- 9780191852930
- 0191852937
- Publisher Number:
- 40028147345
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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