Robust Reality An Essay in Formal Ontology
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George Englebretsen
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Robust Reality An Essay in Formal Ontology
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110325829
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Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN
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1
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CHF 124.80
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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197
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Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn't give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.
Dedication
5
Contents
7
Preface
9
PART ONE: SEIENDES STRUCTURAL ONTOLOGY
15
I Introduction
15
II Terms and Things
27
A Classes, Categories, and Types
27
B Trees
32
1 Aristotle and Ryle
32
2 Tree Rules
43
a Translation Rules
44
b A Note on Vacuousity
61
c Levels of Rectitude
65
C Bearing Fruit
73
PART TWO: SEIN METAPHYSICS AU MONDE
89
III From Formal Ontology to Mondial Metaphysics
90
A Term Logic
90
1 Syntax
90
a Immaculate Predication?
91
b No Predication Without Copulation!
94
2 Semantics
98
B The World and Existence
105
1 Bare Facts
105
2 Naked Truths
110
3 An Aristotelian Conjecture
116
4 Tense, Vacuousity and Truth
118
IV Reality
123
A Nonfiction: Keeping It Real
123
1 À Propos of Noneism
131
2 On What ‘There’ Is
135
B Making Things Up
137
1 Violators
139
2 Confabulators
141
3 Intruders
144
C Seeing (as), Believing, and Knowing
148
Concluding Remarks
157
APPENDICES
161
BIBLIOGRAPHY
173
INDEX
185
