02571nam 2200685uu 450 991097249360332120251116141428.00-19-773025-61-280-52380-80-19-536337-X0-585-35085-X10.1093/oso/9780195057546.001.0001(CKB)111004366525774(EBL)271322(OCoLC)466424711(SSID)ssj0000140302(PQKBManifestationID)11160782(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140302(PQKBWorkID)10052676(PQKB)11235362(Au-PeEL)EBL271322(CaPaEBR)ebr10142174(CaONFJC)MIL52380(OCoLC)935260236(MiAaPQ)EBC271322(OCoLC)1406781199(StDuBDS)9780197730256(OCoLC)26854367(FINmELB)ELB168446(EXLCZ)9911100436652577419930816e20231993 uy |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDividing reality /Eli HirschNew York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (264 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineBibliography: p236-239. -Includes index.Previously issued in print: 1993.0-19-511142-7 0-19-505754-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-239) and index.Contents; 1. The Division Problem; 2. Projectibility and Strange Languages; 3. Reality's Joints I: Properties; 4. Reality's Joints II: Things; 5. The Pragmatic Response; 6. The Order of Understanding; 7. Ontology and the Division Problem; Appendix 1. Projectible Terms; Appendix 2. Similarity and Natural Properties; Appendix 3. The Fine-Grained Doctrine; References; IndexThis monograph identifies and explores a philosophical dilemma which the author calls "the division problem". This is defined as the problem of explaining why language divides up reality in one way rather than another, or the rational basis for languages to contain certain types of words.Oxford scholarship online.Division (Philosophy)Division (Philosophy)111Hirsch Eli142530UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910972493603321Dividing reality4525318UNINA