Ontological reduction / by Reinhardt Grossmann.

Author
Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 1973.
Description
vi, 215 pages ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction: A principle of acquaintance
    • Perceiving and sensing
    • Intuition and judgment
    • Atomic and molecular facts
    • pt. One: Numbers and quantifiers
    • Abbreviations
    • Identity and equivalence
    • Descriptions and Leibniz's law
    • Recursive definitions
    • Definition by abstraction
    • Existence and the quantifiers
    • Necessity
    • Possible entities
    • Implicit definitions
    • Constructional definitions
    • pt. Two: Properties and classes
    • Contextual definitions
    • Property abstraction
    • Sets versus classes
    • Impredicative defrinitions
    • pt. Three: Individuals and structures
    • Wholes and parts
    • A problem of perception
    • Bundles of properties
    • Spatial versus ontological analysis
    • Emgergent properties
    • Conclusion: a list of categories.
    ISBN
    • 0253342465
    • 9780253342461
    LCCN
    72085604
    OCLC
    802739
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