Ontological categories their nature and significance

This work shows how the concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics and how metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of cat...

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Main Author: Westerhoff, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 2005, 2005
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This work shows how the concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics and how metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of categorization
Physical Description:xiv, 261 p. ill
ISBN:9780191713699