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Ontological Reduction by Reinhardt Grossmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931-
- Series:
- Indiana University humanities series, v. 72
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analytische Philosophie.
- Ontology.
- Number concept.
- Categories (Philosophy).
- Concept de nombre.
- Categories (Philosophie).
- Ontologie.
- Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource vi, 215 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Indiana University Press 1973
- Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ontological Reduction offers a philosophical analysis, described in its author's 1970 preface to the text as follows: "A discussion of ontological reduction, with special reference to the status of selected categories and culminating in the outline of a list of categories."
- Contents:
- Introduction: A principle of acquaintance
- Perceiving and sensing
- Intuition and judgment
- Atomic and molecular facts
- pt. One: Numbers and quantifiers
- Abbreviations
- Identity and equivalence
- Descriptions and Leibniz's law
- Recursive definitions
- Definition by abstraction
- Existence and the quantifiers
- Necessity
- Possible entities
- Implicit definitions
- Constructional definitions
- pt. Two: Properties and classes
- Contextual definitions
- Property abstraction
- Sets versus classes
- Impredicative defrinitions
- pt. Three: Individuals and structures
- Wholes and parts
- A problem of perception
- Bundles of properties
- Spatial versus ontological analysis
- Emgergent properties
- Conclusion: a list of categories.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-04940-7
- OCLC:
- 1259584072
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