Modes of existence :: papers in ontology and philosophical logic /

The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or univers...

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Körperschaft: Conference "On What (Perhaps) There Is" Università di Bergamo)
Weitere Verfasser: Bottani, Andrea, 1958-, Davies, Richard (Richard Brian), 1944-
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt [Main] : Ontos Verlag, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 5.
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Zusammenfassung:The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal? Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone is not sad and saying that something does not exist? If we can speak meaningfully about fictions, wha.
Beschreibung:Papers from the Conference "On What (Perhaps) There Is," held May 2005 at the Università di Bergamo.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110327533
3110327538
9783938797
9789783938793
9783110327281
3110327287

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