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Abstract Entities
actual
Actual World
analytic philosophy
Appearance Reality Distinction
Author_Dale Jacquette
Category=QDTJ
Combinatorial Analysis
Combinatorial Ontology
consistency
domain
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existence
Existence Domain
Existent Entities
Extant Domain
Heidegger's Existentialist Ontology
Heidegger’s Existentialist Ontology
Intentional Entities
logical analysis of existence
Logical Possibilities
Logically Contingent
maximal
Maximal Consistency
metaphysics
modal logic
Neurophysiological States
Ontic Sciences
Ontic Status
philosophical
philosophy of language
philosophy of mind
Predicational Completeness
preferred
Preferred Existence Domain
Property Combination
pure
Pure Philosophical Ontology
Putative Entities
Quine's Criterion
Quine’s Criterion
scientific
Scientific Ontology
substance theory
Syntactical Criterion
Transcendent Entities
world
Product details
- ISBN 9781902683553
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist is one of the core concerns of metaphysics. This introduction to ontology provides readers with a comprehensive account of the central ideas of the subject of being. This book is divided into two parts. The first part explores questions of pure philosophical ontology: what is meant by the concept of being, why there exists something rather than nothing, and why there is only one logically contingent actual world. Dale Jacquette shows how logic provides the only possible answers to these fundamental problems. The second part of the book examines issues of applied scientific ontology. Jacquette offers a critical survey of some of the most influential traditional ontologies, such as the distinction between appearance and reality, and the categories of substance and transcendence. The ontology of physical entities - space, time, matter and causation - is examined as well as the ontology of abstract entities such as sets, numbers, properties, relations and propositions. The special problems posed by the subjectivity of mind and of postulating a god are also explored in detail. The final chapter examines the ontology of culture, language and art.
Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
