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A WORLD OF STATES OF AFFAIRS
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D. M. Armstrong, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy |
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ISBN 10: |
0521580641 |
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9780521580649 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
6 March, 1997 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
Pages: |
300 |
Description: |
Offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective. |
Synopsis: |
In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesises but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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