Universals: An Opinionated Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367320447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 163 str.

D. M. Armstrong

Opis

In this short text, a distinguished philosopher turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class? Professor Armstrong carefully sets out six major theories?ancient, modern, and contemporary?and assesses the

Spis treści

Preface -- The Problem -- Primitive Natural Classes -- Resemblance Nominalism -- Particulars as Bundles of Universals -- Universals as Attributes -- Tropes -- Summing Up

O autorze

D. M. Armstrong