Essays on Realist Instance Ontology and its Logic:
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Main Author: Mertz, Donald W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2006
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
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Item Description:Preface; 1. Combinatorial Predication and the Ontology of Unit Attributes; 2. An Instance Ontology for Structures: Their Definition, Identity, and Indiscernibility; 3. The Nature and Necessity of Composite Simples, E.g., Ontic Predicates; 4. Objects as Hierarchical Structures: A Comprehensive Ontology; 5. Ontic Predicates as Substance; 6. The Logic of Instance Ontology; 7. A Definition for Identity And the Implying of an Infinity of Logical Entities
Structure or system is a ubiquitous and uneliminable feature of all our experience and theory, and requires an ontological analysis. The essays collected in this volume provide an account of structure founded upon the proper analysis of polyadic relations as the irreducible and defining elements of structure. It is argued that polyadic relations are ontic predicates in the insightful sense of intension-determined agent-combinators, monadic properties being the limiting and historically misleading case. This assay of ontic predicates has a number of powerful explanatory implications, including
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
ISBN:3110333236
9783110333237

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