Eternal Possibilities : A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence /
Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence builds on David Weissman's earlier Dispositional Properties and makes a signal contribution to the study of metaphysics. Here, broadening and enriching the point of view adopted in his earlier work, Weissman cites and criticizes...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2008, 1977.
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Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Platonism in the tractatus
- Two kinds of possibility: material and eternal
- Relations among eternal possibilities: the nexus
- Possibilities instantiated: the actual world
- Carnap, goodman, and quine: on the relation of language to the world
- Meaning: the representation of possibilities in language.