03638nam 2200685 450 991082319340332120230808191915.03-11-045451-33-11-045521-810.1515/9783110455212(CKB)3710000000609748(EBL)4426450(SSID)ssj0001624683(PQKBManifestationID)16361764(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624683(PQKBWorkID)14884168(PQKB)11177827(DE-B1597)460421(OCoLC)945612183(DE-B1597)9783110455212(MiAaPQ)EBC4426450(Au-PeEL)EBL4426450(CaPaEBR)ebr11163747(CaONFJC)MIL900987(OCoLC)942843126(EXLCZ)99371000000060974820160317h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the elements of ontology attribute instances and structure /D.W. MertzBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2016.©20161 online resource (328 p.)Philosophische Analyse,2198-2066 ;Band 68 =Philosophical Analysis ;Volume 68Description based upon print version of record.3-11-045524-2 3-11-045420-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Overview: Attribution, Structure, and the Five Forms of Composition -- 2. Instance vs. Classic Ontology: Individuation and Adherence -- 3. Instance vs. Classic Ontology: Intensions and Unification -- 4. Atomic Structures: Facts and Their Natures -- 5. Complex Structures and Ontic Atoms -- References -- Index Central to Elements is an assay of the attributional union properties and relations have with their subjects, a topic historically left metaphorical. The work critiques eight Aristotelian assumptions concerning attribute dependence and ‘inherence’, per se subjects (‘substances’), attributes as agent-organizers, and unity-by-a-shared-one. Groups of these assumptions are seen to yield contradiction, vicious regress, or other problems. This analysis, joined with insights from an assay of ubiquitous structure, motivate ten theses explicating attribution and its primary ontic status. The theses detail: attributes proper as individuated instances, structure as instance-generated facts and their two forms of composition, the conditioning role and universal nature of instances’ component intensions, the primacy of attribute instances for generating all forms of composition and complex entities, and identity and indiscernibility criteria for the latter. Principal is the insight that attribution is intension-determined combinatorial agency. It is its systematizing implications that provide solutions to classic problems, e.g., Composition, Individuation, and Universals, and in net generate a comprehensive one-category structuralist ontology.Philosophische Analyse ;Band 68.OntologyAristotle.categories.individuation.unity.universals.Ontology.111Mertz D. W(Donald W.),1947-1658367MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823193403321On the elements of ontology4017657UNINA