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On the Elements of Ontology : Attribute Instances and Structure.

Central to Elements is an assay of the attributional union properties and relations have with their subjects, a topic historically left metaphorical. The work critiques eight Aristotelian assumptions concerning attribute dependence and 'inherence', per se subjects ('substances'),...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mertz, D. W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Colección:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface ; 1. Overview: Attribution, Structure, and the Five Forms of Composition ; 1.1 The Overarching Thesis: Ubiquity of Structure and Ontic Primacy of Attribution ; 1.2 Previewing Attributes as Structuring Intensioned-Combinators.
  • 1.3 Intension Universals and the Five Types of Unification 1.4 On the Emergence of Attributes and Wholes ; 1.5 On the Fictive Nature of Unifier-less Wholes: Formalized Sums and Sets ; 1.6 The Proposed Holism via Attribute Instances as the 'Primary Beings'
  • 2. Instance vs. Classic Ontology: Individuation and Adherence 2.1 Classic Aristotelian/Common-Sense Assumptions ; 2.2 The Classic Assumptions in Aristotle's Metaphysics ; 2.3 The Dependence Contradiction and Individuation Regress.
  • 2.4 The Alternative of Absolutely Bare Particulars and Their Incoherence 2.5 The Alternative of Near-Bare Particulars and Their Error ; 2.6 The Specious Inherence Model of Attribution and Property-Reduction of Relations ; 3. Instance vs. Classic Ontology: Intensions and Unification.
  • 3.1 Further Problems Via the Classic Assumptions, E.g., Bradley's Regress 3.2 Implying the Alternatives of Relation Elimination or Substance Monism ; 3.3 Denying Attribute Dependence: Bundle Theories ; 3.4 Hume and the Denial of the 'Inseparability' of Attributes.