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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: abstract and the concrete
    sub title: further essays in ontology
  name:
    name part: Van Inwagen, Peter
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 'The Abstract and the Concrete' draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-ontology, the author's distinctive version of platonism, mathematical fictionalism, analyticity, and colour.
  table of contents: Cover -- The Abstract and the Concrete: Further Essays in Ontology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: META-ONTOLOGY -- 1: Modes of Being and Quantification -- 2: The Neo-Carnapians -- 3: Dispensing with Ontological Levels: An Illustration -- II: PLATONISM-OF A SORT -- 4: In Defense of Lightweight Platonism -- 5: Two Problems for a Truth-Centered Ontology -- 6: In Defense of Transcendent Universals -- III: TOPICS IN ONTOLOGY -- 7: Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics -- 1. An Argument for Rejecting Nominalism -- 2. Against Fictionalist Nominalism
  table of contents: 3. The Applied Arithmetical Fiction as a Conservative Extension of Nominalistically Acceptable Discourse -- 8: Against Analytic Existence Entailments -- Brief Appendix on Ryle and Counting -- 9: "Color is an Illusion" -- 1. Naïve Realism -- 2. Illusory Phenomena -- 3. A Question -- 4. An Answer -- 5. A Discussion of the Answer -- Bibliography -- Index
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Peter van Inwagen.
  note: Also issued in print: 2023.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Ontologie
  subject:
    topic: ontology (metaphysics)
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B945.V351 .V3 2024
  classification: 111
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    title info:
      title: Abstract and the concrete
    name:
      name part: Van Inwagen, Peter.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1378102434
  identifier: 9780191966750
  identifier: 0191966754
  identifier: 9780192870452
  identifier: 0192870459
  identifier: 9780192697745
  identifier: 0192697749
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 231009
    record change date: 20260319204126.3
    record identifier: in00005726432
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng