Englebretsen Robust Reality

An Essay in Formal Ontology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032582-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 46, 197 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN

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; 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Englebretsen, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Dedication;5
2;Contents;7
3;Preface;9
4;PART ONE: SEIENDES STRUCTURAL ONTOLOGY;15
4.1;I Introduction;15
4.2;II Terms and Things;27
4.2.1;A Classes, Categories, and Types;27
4.2.2;B Trees;32
4.2.2.1;1 Aristotle and Ryle;32
4.2.2.2;2 Tree Rules;43
4.2.2.2.1;a Translation Rules;44
4.2.2.2.2;b A Note on Vacuousity;61
4.2.2.2.3;c Levels of Rectitude;65
4.2.3;C Bearing Fruit;73
5;PART TWO: SEIN METAPHYSICS AU MONDE;89
5.1;III From Formal Ontology to Mondial Metaphysics;90
5.1.1;A Term Logic;90
5.1.1.1;1 Syntax;90
5.1.1.1.1;a Immaculate Predication?;91
5.1.1.1.2;b No Predication Without Copulation!;94
5.1.1.2;2 Semantics;98
5.1.2;B The World and Existence;105
5.1.2.1;1 Bare Facts;105
5.1.2.2;2 Naked Truths;110
5.1.2.3;3 An Aristotelian Conjecture;116
5.1.2.4;4 Tense, Vacuousity and Truth;118
5.2;IV Reality;123
5.2.1;A Nonfiction: Keeping It Real;123
5.2.1.1;1 À Propos of Noneism;131
5.2.1.2;2 On What ‘There’ Is;135
5.2.2;B Making Things Up;137
5.2.2.1;1 Violators;139
5.2.2.2;2 Confabulators;141
5.2.2.3;3 Intruders;144
5.2.3;C Seeing (as), Believing, and Knowing;148
6;Concluding Remarks;157
7;APPENDICES;161
8;BIBLIOGRAPHY;173
9;INDEX;185