UID:
almafu_9960799843302883
Format:
1 online resource (309 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-874803-5
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0-19-176518-X
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0-19-164834-5
Content:
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 essences of things - not in meanings or concepts.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Ontological Preliminaries""; ""1.1 Questions""; ""1.2 Objects, properties, and relations""; ""1.3 Determining what there is""; ""1.4 An objection considered""; ""1.5 A response begun""; ""1.6 The response completed""; ""1.7 Frege�s problem: the concept horse""; ""1.8 Frege�s response""; ""1.9 Kerry redux?""; ""1.10 Frege revised""; ""1.11 Frege further revised""; ""1.12 The bearable lightness of being""; ""Appendix: Inferential tests for singular terms""; ""2. The Indispensability of Logical Necessity""; ""2.1 Overview""
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""2.2 McFetridge�s argument expounded""""2.3 A sceptical objection, and a response to it begun""; ""2.4 Wright�s anti-Quine argument expounded, some objections considered, and its principal conclusion upheld""; ""2.5 McFetridge�s argument refurbished and the response to the sceptic completed""; ""2.5 Basic logical necessities""; ""3. Modality�Fundamental and Irreducible""; ""3.1 Introductory remarks""; ""3.2 Reductive explanation�what is required for success?""; ""3.3 Worldly reduction�can modality be reductively explained in terms of possible worlds?""
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""3.4 Supervenience without reduction? Do modal facts always depend upon more basic non-modal facts?""""3.5 Projectivism and non-cognitivism""; ""3.6 Conclusions""; ""4. Absolute Modality""; ""4.1 McFetridge�s proposal extended�a counterfactual definition of absolute necessity""; ""4.2 Absolute necessity as the limit of relative necessity""; ""4.3 Absolute necessity as absence of competing possibility""; ""4.4 The three conceptions of absolute necessity compared""; ""4.5 Logical and metaphysical modalities""; ""5. The Source of Logical Necessities""; ""5.1 Introductory remarks""
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""5.2 Conventionalism""""5.3 Truth in virtue of meaning""; ""5.4 The necessity of necessities""; ""5.5 Non-transmissive explanations of necessity""; ""5.6 Intermediate conclusions""; ""6. Metaphysical Necessities""; ""6.1 Introductory remarks""; ""6.2 Non-logical necessities""; ""6.3 Arithmetic necessities""; ""6.4 An essentialist theory of necessity""; ""6.5 Some questions of scope and adequacy""; ""6.6 Circles and regresses""; ""Appendix 1: Kinds of necessity and kinds of truth""; ""Appendix 2: Defining the cardinal numbers""; ""7. Necessary Beings: Properties and Numbers""
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""7.1 Introductory remarks""""7.2 Properties and relations""; ""7.3 Functions""; ""7.4 Objects""; ""Appendix: Arithmetic and truths of logic""; ""8. Higher-order Logics""; ""8.1 Introductory remarks""; ""8.2 Set-theory in sheep�s clothing""; ""8.3 No entity without identity""; ""8.4 The interpretation of higher-order logic: standard and non-standard semantics""; ""8.5 An alternative second-order semantics""; ""8.6 Impredicativity and abstraction""; ""Appendix: Proof sketches""; ""9. Contingent Beings""; ""9.1 Introductory remarks""; ""9.2 Absolute necessity and existence""
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""9.3 Individual natures and necessity""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-966957-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-82101-4
Language:
English
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