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Metaphysics and scientific realism : essays in honour of David Malet Armstrong /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston ; Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter Inc.,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Eide ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction ; Mirage Realism Revisited ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The one over many problem ; 3 Devitt's charge of mirage realism ; 4 The one over many problem and Armstrong's world of states of affairs ; 5 Instantiation as partial identity.
- 6 The one over many problem and the Platonic view of universals Ostrich Nominalism or Ostrich Platonism? ; 1 What is it like to be an ostrich? ; 2 The argument from gross facts ; 3 The harlot argument ; 4 The truthmaker argument ; 5 Sketch for a Platonic theory of predication.
- 6 Concluding remarks In Defense of Transcendent Universals ; 1 Armstrong's ontological method ; 2 Armstrong's primary critique of transcendent realism ; 3 A reply to the primary critique ; 4 "How can distinct particulars have the same properties?" ; 5 Arguments, not explanations.
- Armstrong and Tropes 1 Universals and tropes ; 2 Tropes and substances ; 3 Armstrong's objections to trope nominalism ; 4 Answers to the objections ; 5 Some advantages of trope nominalism ; 6 Remaining problems for the trope nominalist ; 7 Conclusion ; Tropes: For and Against.
- 1 Introduction 2 Tropes and the one over many ; 3 Armstrong on what is the 'best' version of the trope view ; 4 Armstrong on why there are no tropes ; 5 Piling, swapping, and 'Hochberg's argument' ; 6 Laws of nature and resemblance ; Facts: An Essay in Aporetics ; 1 Introduction.