Language, Truth and Ontology

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Author: Kevin Mulligan

ISBN-10: 079231509X

ISBN-13: 9780792315094

Category: Major Branches of Philosophical Study

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PrefaceThe Basic Ontological Categories12The Basic Concepts23Individual Things and Events54Beginnings and Processes55Necessary Substance12Properties141Why We Should Admit Properties152Universals vs. Tropes22On Negative and Disjunctive Properties28Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals37Characteristica Universalis481Preamble482From Leibniz to Frege493Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs514Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language535The Oil-Painting Principle566Primitives and Definitions577Substance648Accidents679Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms)7010Boundaries and Boundary Dependence7111Universals73Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects781A New Explanation782An Application of the Foregoing Explanation82Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types87Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be?1181Motivation1182Salmon's Counterexample1203The Branching Conception125Was Frege Right about Variable Objects?133Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense1572Logical Atomism, What1573Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts1614Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions1635Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization1666Other Higher Order Functors1687Statistical Generalizations and Probability1708Laws of Nature and Causality1719Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others17410Resolution and Ultimate Facts175Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date1802The Problem1813Aristotle1824Newtonian Self-Change1835Intentionality1866Temporally Extended Entities1887The Duality of Intentions1898Formal Ontology Today190Leibniz on Properties and Individuals193Index of Names205Index of Subjects208