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Autore |
Englebretsen George |
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Titolo |
Robust reality : an essay in formal ontology / / George Englebretsen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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3-86838-133-3 |
3-11-032582-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; ; Bd. 46 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Seiendes : structural ontology -- pt. 2. Metaphysics au Monde. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn't give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real |
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