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States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Heusenstamm [Germany] :
Ontos,
2009.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conju. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110326024 3110326027 3110325225 9783110325225 3868384081 9783868384086 |