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Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism (Synthese Library)
Nino B. Cocchiarella Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover  General
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Medieval Thought
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ASIN: 1402062036 |
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Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms, and the arguments for and against them, including their consistency and adequacy as explanatory frameworks, have generally been given in even more informal terms. The goal of formal ontology is to correct for these deficiencies. By formally reconstructing an intuitive, informal ontological scheme as a formal ontology we can better determine the consistency and adequacy of that scheme; and then by comparing different reconstructed schemes with one another we can better evaluate the arguments for and against them and come to a decision as to which system it is best to adopt.
This book is divided into two parts. The first part is on formal ontology and how different informal ontological systems can be formally developed and compared with one another. The main point is that a formal ontology connects logical categories -- especially the categories involved in predication -- with ontological categories.
The second part of this book is on the formal construction and defense of a particular formal ontology called conceptual realism, which is based on a unified account of general and singular reference in a conceptualist theory of predication. An intensional logic based on deactivated (nominalized) referential and predicable concepts is part of this ontology as well as an analysis of plural reference and predication in terms of a logic of classes as many. A natural realism and an Aristotelian essentialism based on a logic of natural kinds is also part of the framework, which is put forward here as the best formal ontology to adopt.
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Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy
Nino B. Cocchiarella Manufacturer: Ohio State Univ Pr (Txt) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General
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ASIN: 0814204376 |
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Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy
Nino B. Cocchiarella Manufacturer: Ohio State Univ. Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N3JP1O |
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Logical Investigations of Predication Theory and the Problem of Universals (Indices : Monographs in Philosophical Logic and Formal Linguistics, 2)
Nino Cocchiarella Manufacturer: Humanities Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General
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ASIN: 8870880702 |
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LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF PREDICATION THEORY AND THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS
Nino B. Cocchiarella Manufacturer: Bibliopolis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RAWBPA |
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