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Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

By George Englebretsen

Book information

Publisher
Ontos Verlag
Year
2012
ISBN
3868381333, 9783868381337
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1710168 bytes)
Series
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis 46
Pages
197\201
Scanned
no
Time added
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Description

Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; and a metaphysics that doesn’t give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.

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