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Familiar Objects and their Shadows /
"Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139010023 1139010026 9781139007870 1139007874 9780511760129 0511760124 1139012738 9781139012737 1283017199 9781283017190 9786613017192 6613017191 1139009494 9781139009492 1139008978 9781139008976 1139006762 9781139006767 |