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Potentiality : from dispositions to modality /

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Individual objects have potentials. Paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree. Barbara Vetter investigates the metaphysics of such potentials, and develops a dispositionalist view of metaphysical modality which takes account of contemporary developments in metap...

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Main Author:	Vetter, Barbara, 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford philosophical monographs.
Subjects:	Disposition (Philosophy) Ontology. Metaphysics.

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