Types

Essays in Metaphysics
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-90-04-09500-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Philosophy of History and Culture

This book consists of a series of applications to ontology, the philosophy of mind, and aesthetics, of two nominalistic theses: first, that all the things we encounter (houses, cats, people, symphonies, and also hair, milk, red, and love) are types, and second, that things are ontologically incomplete. Types are material things that recur at several indices, at which they are identical with other things; thus in this world Man=Mortal, and today Jane=Happy. The Jupiter Symphony is a material thing that recurs at various times at homes and concert halls. Like all things it is ontologically incomplete (it is undetermined with respect to some properties); therefore it can be interpreted, that is, be identical with some things more complete than it is. Using these ideas new, simple and metaphysically frugal solutions are offered to a plethora of questions that have beset philosophy ever since Plato.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zemach

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

Eddy M. Zemach is Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published several books and hundreds of articles in philosophy and in literary criticism. His most recent book is The Reality of Meaning and the Meaning of "Reality" (1992).