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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, England :
Oxford University Press
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46447295*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
