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Existence and nature : new perspectives /
Is all that exists part of the natural world? If there are non-natural entities, what is their difference from natural things? Is the human-independent realm of nature the only paradigm for ontological respectability, as naturalism claims? Can existence be simply explained away by means of formal de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt : Piscataway, NJ :
Ontos Verlag ; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books,
Ã2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Is all that exists part of the natural world? If there are non-natural entities, what is their difference from natural things? Is the human-independent realm of nature the only paradigm for ontological respectability, as naturalism claims? Can existence be simply explained away by means of formal devices? Philosophers keep struggling with such questions. Still, the two basic notions involved, that of existence and that of nature, have not yet been fully explored. The four essays collected here address the issue from the points of view of the philosophy of mathematics, of analytic ontology, of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110321807 3110321807 9783110321548 3110321548 |