Quantifier Variance and Realism : Essays in Metaontology.
Title:
Quantifier Variance and Realism : Essays in Metaontology.
Author:
Hirsch, Eli.
ISBN:
9780199780716
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Sense of Unity -- 2. Basic Objects: A Reply to Xu -- 3. Objectivity Without Objects -- 4. The Vagueness of Identity -- 5. Quantifier Variance and Realism -- 6. Against Revisionary Ontology -- 7. Comments on Theodore Sider's Four Dimensionalism -- 8. Sosa's Existential Relativism -- 9. Physical-Object Ontology, Verbal Disputes, and Common Sense -- 10. Ontological Arguments: Interpretive Charity and Quantifier Variance -- 11. Language, Ontology, and Structure -- 12. Ontology and Alternative Languages -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
This volume presents a distinctive metaontological perspective that combines two ideas: first, that objects in the world exist in complete independence of language or thought; but, second, that the world can be correctly and adequately described without employing our ordinary concept of "the objects that exist in the world.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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