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Ontology without borders / Jody Azzouni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azzouni, Jody, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Object (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Our experience of objects is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. This, however, is a projection of our senses and thinking. Azzouni shows the resulting austere metaphysics tames many ancient philosophical problems about constitution ('Ship of Theseus', 'Sorites'), as well as contemporary puzzles about reductionism.
- Contents:
- Ontological commitment
- Transcendence and immanence
- The transcendence of the natural-language exist when used to assert or deny ontological commitment
- Ontological neutrality in natural languages
- Truth and bivalence
- Applications of neutrality
- What there is
- The master argument against ontological borders
- Feature-placing languages
- Focusing in on (some of) the real
- Constructing objects.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 19, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-062257-1
- 0-19-062258-X
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