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Modes of existence : papers in ontology and philosophical logic /
The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or univers...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt [Main] :
Ontos Verlag,
©2006.
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| Series: | Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
Bd. 5. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal? Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone is not sad and saying that something does not exist? If we can speak meaningfully about fictions, wha. |
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| Item Description: | Papers from the Conference "On What (Perhaps) There Is," held May 2005 at the Università di Bergamo. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110327533 3110327538 9783938797 9789783938793 9783110327281 3110327287 |