Nothing in particular Graham Priest

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priest, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nothing (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2026.

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

Nothing in Particular is about nothing(ness), a highly vexed notion, quickly leading to contradiction: that it is both something and nothing. Graham Priest argues that nothingness is a dialetheic object, both something and nothing - "the paradox of nothing". Priest defines nothingness as the fusion of no things and this definition is equivalent to being the mereological complement (that is, the absence) of everything. He argues that, in virtue of not being an object, nothing is ineffable - but in a paradoxical way, since it is effable too. He also argues that, in a sense made clear in the book, nothing is the ground of reality. To be an object is to "rise above" nothing. The book addresses a historically important and central area of metaphysics-nothingness-using the tools of contemporary logic and mereology, to produce a highly novel account of the subject that will be of interest to a wide range of philosophers

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197844113

0197844111

OCLC:

1596819819

Access Restriction:

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