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A Theory of Universals: Volume 2: Universals and Scientific Realism

A Theory of Universals: Volume 2: Universals and Scientific Realism

Armstrong, D. M.
Armstrong, David Malet

Paperback

Series: Universals & Scientific Realism, Book 2

PhilosophyGeneral ScienceLogic

ISBN10: 052128032X
ISBN13: 9780521280327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 9 1980
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' realism. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology. The theory allows, too, for a convincing explanation of natural laws as relations between these universals.

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