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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779327103321

Autore

Dilworth Craig

Titolo

Simplicity [[electronic resource] ] : a meta-metaphysics / / Craig Dilworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

0-7391-7724-9

1-299-14871-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Simplicity (Philosophy)

Hermeneutics

Thought and thinking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is philosophy? -- Simplicity -- Various kinds of category and principle -- Ontology vs. epistemology -- Understanding vs. knowledge -- Fundamental conceptual principles -- Non-physical dimensions -- Language -- Set theory -- Paradox -- Empiricism vs. rationalism -- Empiricism vs. realism -- Special theory of relativity -- Quantum mechanics -- God -- Ethics -- Love, death, and aesthetics -- Buddhist philosophy -- Taoist philosophy.

Sommario/riassunto

Simplicity provides a new logic with which to approach intellectual situations. Using the simplicity way of thinking as a tool helps clarify intellectual standpoints and conceptually problematic situations in philosophy, mathematics and physics.