Axiomatic Formal Ontology /

Axiomatic Formal Ontology is a fairly comprehensive systematic treatise on general metaphysics. The axiomatic method is applied throughout the book. Its main theme is the construction of a general non-set-theoretical theory of intensional entities. Other important matters discussed are the metaphysi...

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Main Author: Meixner, Uwe
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1997.
Series:Synthese library ; 264.
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Summary:Axiomatic Formal Ontology is a fairly comprehensive systematic treatise on general metaphysics. The axiomatic method is applied throughout the book. Its main theme is the construction of a general non-set-theoretical theory of intensional entities. Other important matters discussed are the metaphysics of modality, the nature of actual existence, mereology and the taxonomy of entities.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 398 pages)
ISBN:9789401588676 (electronic bk.)
9401588678 (electronic bk.)