Ontological categories : their nature and significance /
This work shows how the concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics and how metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of cat...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Sample cases : systems of ontological categories
- Attempted definitions of 'ontological category'
- A world of states of affairs
- Categories in an ontology of states of affairs
- Individuals and properties in an ontology of states of affairs
- Philosophical implications.