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Sketch for a systematic metaphysics / D. M. Armstrong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstrong, D. M. (David Malet), 1926-2014, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- First philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 125 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. On the basis of the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time, he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics.
- Contents:
- Properties
- Relations
- States of affairs
- Laws of nature
- Reaching to dispositionalism
- Particulars
- Truthmakers
- Possibility, actuality, necessity
- Limits
- Absences
- The rational disciplines : logic and mathematics
- Numbers
- Classes
- Time
- Mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161542-0
- 0-19-965591-X
- 1-282-66121-3
- 9786612661211
- 0-19-158519-X
- OCLC:
- 656359246
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