Language, Truth and Ontology /

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen, were presented at the colloquium on "Properties&...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mulligan, Kevin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1992.
Colección:Philosophical studies series ; 51.
Temas:
Philosophy (General)
Logic.
Metaphysics.
Ontology.
Ontology > Congresses.
Language and languages > Philosophy > Congresses.
Truth > Congresses.
Metaphysics
Ontologie > Congrès.
Langage et langues > Philosophie > Congrès.
Vérité > Congrès.
Métaphysique.
Ontologie.
metaphysics.
ontologies (vocabularies)
ontology (metaphysics)
Truth
Language and languages > Philosophy
Logic
Ontology
Ontologie
Sprachphilosophie
Wahrheit
Kongress
Ontologie (filosofie)
Taal.
Waarheid.
Langage et langues > Congrès.
Philosophie du langage > Congrès.
Vérité > Philosophie > Congrès.
Catégories (philosophie) > Congrès.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Basic Ontological Categories
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Basic Concepts
  • 3. Individual Things and Events
  • 4. Beginnings and Processes
  • 5. Necessary Substance
  • Properties
  • 1. Why We Should Admit Properties
  • 2. Universals vs. Tropes
  • On Negative and Disjunctive Properties
  • Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals
  • Characteristica Universalis
  • 1. Preamble
  • 2. From Leibniz to Frege
  • 3. Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs
  • 4. Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language
  • 5. The Oil-Painting Principle
  • 6. Primitives and Definitions
  • 7. Substance
  • 8. Accidents
  • 9. Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms)
  • 10. Boundaries and Boundary Dependence
  • 11. Universals
  • Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects
  • 1. A New Explanation
  • 2. An Application of the Foregoing Explanation
  • Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types
  • Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be?
  • 1. Motivation
  • 2. Salmon's Counterexample
  • 3. The Branching Conception
  • Was Frege Right about Variable Objects?
  • Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Logical Atomism, What
  • 3. Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts
  • 4. Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions
  • 5. Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization
  • 6. Other Higher Order Functors
  • 7. Statistical Generalizations and Probability
  • 8. Laws of Nature and Causality
  • 9. Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others
  • 10. Resolution and Ultimate Facts
  • 11. Concluding Remarks
  • Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Problem
  • 3. Aristotle
  • 4. Newtonian Self-Change
  • 5. Intentionality
  • 6. Temporally Extended Entities
  • 7. The Duality of Intentions
  • 8. Formal Ontology Today
  • 9. Summary
  • Leibniz on Properties and Individuals
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.

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