{"product_id":"abstract-and-the-concrete-1","title":"Abstract and the Concrete","description":"The Abstract and the Concrete presents nine essays in ontology by Peter van Inwagen. Three of the essays concern topics in meta-ontology: the idea of multiple modes of being; Carnap's idea that the questions of \"ontology,\" insofar as they are meaningful at all, are questions about which linguistic frameworks it is expedient to employ; the concept of one object's being metaphysically more fundamental that another. Three of the essays concern various topics that pertain to the author's \"lower-case\" or \"lightweight\" platonism. (According to lightweight platonism, there are attributes-necessarily existent universals. These attributes are not constituents of substances, they cannot enter into causal relations, and it is false that an F object is F in virtue of instantiating the attribute of being F.) The remaining three essays examine proposed answers to particular ontological questions: the question of the validity of mathematical fictionalism; the question whether it is analytic that at any place at which some xs are arranged chairwise, there is there a chair; the question of what it means to say that colour is an illusion, and whether (in the sense determined) colour is an illusion.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47754058105176,"sku":"9780192870452","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780192870452_c9cc8b48-3be3-4e6e-ae81-acfe9221144a.jpg?v=1778620524","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/abstract-and-the-concrete-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}