Necessary Beings
An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28504584M
- ISBN-139780199669578
- OCLC Control Number860942693
- OCLC Control Number850213282
- Library of Congress Control Number2013940150
Classifications
- LCCBD218.5
Description
Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things - not in meanings or concepts.
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