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  title info:
    title: Varieties of things
    sub title: foundations of contemporary metaphysics
  name:
    name part: Macdonald, Cynthia
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Malden, MA
    publisher: Blackwell Pub.
    date issued: ©2005
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)
  abstract: "Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics" explores the fundamental ontological categories of things; and things that we encounter in everyday life, such as material substances, persons, events and universals. The author begins with a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. She then goes on to develop tools that can be used to engage in metaphysical thinking about the basic varieties of things. The book both surveys existing accounts of the natures of these kinds of things, and argues for unique original positions of its own. The arguments support a systematically anti-reductionist view of the basic ontological categories
  table of contents: Metaphysics and its tools -- The nature and function of metaphysics -- Some tools of metaphysics -- Particulars -- Material substances -- Persons and personal identity -- Events -- Universals -- Universals and the realism/nominalism dispute.
  note: Cynthia Macdonald.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-271) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  classification: BD111 .M19 2005eb
  classification: 110
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    title info:
      title: Varieties of things
    name:
      name part: Macdonald, Cynthia, 1951-
    origin info:
      publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2005
    identifier: (DLC) 2004027277
  identifier: 9780470775684
  identifier: 0470775688
  identifier: 1405154446
  identifier: 9781405154444
  identifier: 10.1002/9780470775684 Wiley InterScience
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