02670nam 2200661 a 450 991045480970332120200520144314.00-19-180979-91-282-12606-797866121260620-19-156742-6(CKB)1000000000766343(EBL)453622(OCoLC)428732515(SSID)ssj0000224784(PQKBManifestationID)11174374(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224784(PQKBWorkID)10210315(PQKB)11217455(StDuBDS)EDZ0001138771(MiAaPQ)EBC453622(Au-PeEL)EBL453622(CaPaEBR)ebr10300139(CaONFJC)MIL212606(EXLCZ)99100000000076634320080925d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPossibility[electronic resource] /Michael JubienOxford Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-959628-X 0-19-923278-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-202) and index.Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; 1. Concrete Entities; 2. Abstract Entities; 3. Against Possible Worlds; 4. The Core Analysis; 5. Proper Names; 6. Fictional Names; 7. Natural Kind Terms; References; IndexPossibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, and starts instead the notion of a physical object and the positing of properties and relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, and proper names. - ;Possibility offers a new analysis of the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity, one that does not rely on any sort of 'possible worlds'. The analysis proceeds from an account of the notion of a physical object and from the positing of properties and rPossibilityMetaphysicsNecessity (Philosophy)Electronic books.Possibility.Metaphysics.Necessity (Philosophy)123111Jubien Michael460773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454809703321Possibility2031924UNINA