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Forms of Thought : a Study in Philosophical Logic.
Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1 Reference and predication; 2 Identity; 3 Modality; 4 Conditionality; Part 1 Reference and predication; Chapter 2 Individuation, reference, and sortal terms; 1 Sortal, categorial, and transcategorial terms; 2 Criteria of identity and sortal persistence conditions; 3 Two notions of individuation; 4 Object perception and singular thought; 5 Categorialism and linguistic reference; Chapter 3 Two styles of predication
- dispositional and occurrent; 1 The four-category ontology and its logic.
- 2 Cross-categorial ontological dependencies3 Laws of nature and the inference problem; 4 Conditional laws and the problem of idiosyncratic dispositions; 5 Conditional laws and the principle of instantiation; Appendix: proofs; Chapter 4 Ontological categories and categorial predication; 1 Fantology; or, òntology lité; 2 Aristotelian categorial ontology and its logical formalization; 3 Categorial predication: its form, meaning, and use; Part II Identity; Chapter 5 What is a criterion of identity?; 1 The Fregean thesis; 2 Freges example of directions and parallelism.
- 3 A return to the Fregean thesis4 Type-(B) identity criteria and the problem of circularity; 5 Do type-(B) identity criteria necessarily fall prey to a circularity problem?; 6 What is the primary purpose of a criterion of identity?; 7 In defence of type-(B) identity criteria; 8 Can the Fregean thesis hold with complete universality?; 9 Dummett on criteria of identity; 10 The Fregean thesis upheld; 11 Type-(B) identity criteria for concrete natural-language sortals; 12 Conclusions; Chapter 6 Identity conditions and their grounds; 1 Identity, identity conditions, and criteria of identity.
- 2 Conceptions, concepts, and essences3 Concrete material objects and their criteria of identity; 4 Some misunderstandings of the identity-criteria sceptics exposed; 5 Problems with c̀onceptualist ́accounts of essence and identity conditions; 6 A realist view of essence and identity conditions; 7 Replies to some anticipated objections; 8 Some additional observations and a summary conclusion; Part III Modality; Chapter 7 Identity, vagueness, and modality; 1 Vague objects and vague identity: Evanśs argument; 2 Is Evanśs argument question-begging?
- 3 Lessons from the parallel between Evanśs argument and the Barcan-Kripke proof of the necessity of identity4 A stripped-down version of Evanśs argument; 5 A plausible example of ontically indeterminate identity; Chapter 8 Necessity, essence, and possible worlds; 1 The language and ontology of possible worlds; 2 Serious essentialism: its claims and merits; 3 The errors of conceptualism; 4 The redundancy of possible worlds; Part IV Conditionality; Chapter 9 The truth about counterfactuals; 1 Subjunctive and indicative conditionals; 2 Rival theories of the indicative conditional.