ENGLISH

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

By Nino B. Cocchiarella

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
9781402062032, 9781402062049, 1402062036
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2820643 bytes)
Series
Synthese Library 339
Pages
347\347
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms. This book offers an account of the general features and methodology of formal ontology. The book defends conceptual realism as the best system to adopt based on a logic of natural kinds. By formally reconstructing an intuitive, informal ontological scheme as a formal ontology we can better determine the consistency and adequacy of that scheme.

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