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A World of States of Affairs

By D. M. Armstrong

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521589487, 9780521589482
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14837349 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages
300\300
Time added
2017-09-05 13:21:48
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Description

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the "logical atomism" of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. It will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.

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