Ontological Reduction / by Reinhardt Grossmann

• Autore: Grossmann Reinhardt <1931->
• Pubblicazione: Indiana University Press, 1973; Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, , 1973; ©1973
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource vi, 215 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Analytische Philosophie; Ontology; Number concept; Categories (Philosophy); Concept de nombre; Categories (Philosophie); Ontologie
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: A principle of acquaintance -- Perceiving and sensing -- Intuition and judgment -- Atomic and molecular facts -- pt. One: Numbers and quantifiers -- Abbreviations -- Identity and equivalence -- Descriptions and Leibniz's law -- Recursive definitions -- Definition by abstraction -- Existence and the quantifiers -- Necessity -- Possible entities -- Implicit definitions -- Constructional definitions -- pt. Two: Properties and classes -- Contextual definitions -- Property abstraction -- Sets versus classes -- Impredicative defrinitions -- pt. Three: Individuals and structures -- Wholes and parts -- A problem of perception -- Bundles of properties -- Spatial versus ontological analysis -- Emgergent properties -- Conclusion: a list of categories.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ontological Reduction offers a philosophical analysis, described in its author's 1970 preface to the text as follows: "A discussion of ontological reduction, with special reference to the status of selected categories and culminating in the outline of a list of categories."
• Titolo autorizzato: Ontological Reduction
• ISBN: 0-253-04940-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524857603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II