How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties /

What are the essential properties of ordinary individuals such as people, cats, trees, and tables? The question is notoriously difficult, yet must be answered to obtain a satisfying account of the ways in which such individuals could and could not have been different from the way that they are. This...

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Main Author: Mackie, Penelope
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
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