Sketch for a systematic metaphysics
by Armstrong, D. M., (David Malet)
"David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. He begins with the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time. On this foundation he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics. He gives accounts of properties, relations, and particulars; laws of nature; modality; abstract objects such as numbers; and time and mind.…
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"David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. He begins with the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time. On this foundation he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics. He gives accounts of properties, relations, and particulars; laws of nature; modality; abstract objects such as numbers; and time and mind."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 125 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199590612, 0199590613
- oclc:ocn587229715
- LC Classification:BD28
- Dewey Decimal:110
Table of Contents
Properties -- Relations -- States of affairs -- Laws of nature -- Reaching to dispositionalism -- Particulars -- Truthmakers -- Possibility, actuality, necessity -- Limits -- Absences -- The rational disciplines : logic and mathematics -- Numbers -- Classes -- Time -- Mind.
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