Ontological Reduction /

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Main Author: Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.