The Physical Basis of Predication (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

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The Physical Basis of Predication (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 271 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521411318
  • DDC分類 111.2

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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1992.

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In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and logic, the idea of possibility, hierarchies of universals, and causation. He argues that neither language nor logic is a reliable guide to the nature of reality and that basic universals are the fundamental type of universal and are central to causation. All assertions and predications about the natural world are ultimately founded on these basic universals. A distinction is drawn between unified particulars (which reveal natural principle of unity) and arbitrary particulars (which lack such a principle); unified particulars are the terms of causal relations and thus the real constituents of the world. The world is not made up of events but of unified particulars and basic universals.

Table of Contents

1. 'Real constituents of the world'
2. What can logic and language tell us about
reality?
3. The 'existence' of universals and the notion
of possibility
4. The causal significance of basic attributes
5. Hierarchies of universals
6. Causal relations
7. Arbitrary particulars and unified particulars
8. Further considerations concerning the causal
relation
9. Arbitrary particulars and physical objects.