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Potentiality : from dispositions to modality /

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Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn; an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree. Barbara Vetter investigates the metaphysics of such potentials, and develops a dispositionalist view of metaphysical modality which takes account of contemporary developments in metap...

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Main Author: Vetter, Barbara, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs.
Subjects:
Ontology.
Metaphysics.
First philosophy.
Ontologie.
Métaphysique.
ontology (metaphysics)
metaphysics.
Logic.
PHILOSOPHY.
First philosophy
Metaphysics
Ontology
Electronic books.
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Summary:Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn; an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree. Barbara Vetter investigates the metaphysics of such potentials, and develops a dispositionalist view of metaphysical modality which takes account of contemporary developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191782718
0191782718