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Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

Englebretsen, George

Hardcover

Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, Book 46

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN10: 3110325128
ISBN13: 9783110325126
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Dec 15 2011
Pages: 197
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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