Ways a world might be
metaphysical and anti-metaphysical essays
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Word Count
71,750 words, Guess
Page Count
287 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3323866M
- ISBN-100199251487
- OCLC Control Number52323859
- OCLC Control Numberwaysworldmightbe00stal
- Library of Congress Control Number2004296734
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- Goodreads541818
- LibraryThing540575
Classifications
- DDC110
- LCCBC199.M6 S73 2003
Description
The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The book begins with reflections on the general idea of a possible world, and then uses the framework of possible worlds to formulate and clarify some questions about properties and individuals, reference, thought, and experience. The essays also reflect on the nature of metaphysics, and on the relation between questions about what there is and questions about how we talk and think about what there is. Two of the fourteen essays, plus an extensive introduction that sets the papers in context and draws out the essays' common threads, are published here for the first time.
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