ISBN-13: 9781501510557 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2016 / 309 str.
This book is about how things are. It starts from the principles of a descriptive (i.e. everyday ontological ) ontology of things to develop a theory about the title question that is based on the notion of mode . Modes are concrete, individual determinants of things. The power of the theory is then tested to determine its usefulness for developing an ontology of things."