Necessary beings : an essay on ontology, modality, and the relations between them /

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essence...

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Main Author:	Hale, Bob, 1945- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Frege, Gottlob, > 1848-1925. Frege, Gottlob, > 1848-1925 Modality (Theory of knowledge) Ontology. Modalité (Théorie de la connaissance) Ontologie. ontology (metaphysics) Ontology Electronic books.
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