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Nature and Necessity An Essay in Physical Ontology / Milton Fisk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisk, Milton.
- Series:
- Indiana University humanities series ; no. 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of nature.
- Ontology.
- Necessity (Philosophy).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xv, 301 pages) : illustrations).
- Place of Publication:
- Indiana University Press 1974
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nature and Necessity: An Essay in Physical Ontology presents genuinely new solutions to some salient problems in metaphysics. Fisk provides a new argument, based on the notion of conditional probability, for the claim that induction presupposes necessary connections. After devising an ontology of physical individuals to provide an objective basis for necessary connections, he uses this ontology to solve problems about relations, action, time, capacities, and events.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-04938-5
- OCLC:
- 1259586630
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