Necessary beings : an essay on ontology, modality, and the relations between them /

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essence...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hale, Bob, 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Frege, Gottlob, > 1848-1925.
Frege, Gottlob, > 1848-1925
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Ontology.
Modalité (Théorie de la connaissance)
Ontologie.
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Ontology
Modalität
Ontologie
Metaphysik
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Table of Contents:
  • Ontological preliminaries
  • The indispensability of logical necessity
  • Modality : fundamental and irreducible
  • Absolute modality
  • The source of logical necessities
  • Metaphysical necessities
  • Necessary beings : properties and numbers
  • Higher-order logics
  • Contingent beings
  • Possibilities
  • Essential knowledge.

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