A realistic theory of categories
an essay on ontology
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Author
Publication
1996 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
36,500 words, Guess
Page Count
146 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL802971M
- ISBN-100521554268
- OCLC Control Number33667115
- OCLC Control Numberrealistictheoryo0000chis
- Library of Congress Control Number95039427
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- Goodreads3736518
- LibraryThing315541
Classifications
- DDC111
- LCCB945.C463 R42 1996
Description
Roderick Chisholm has been for many years one of the most important and influential philosophers contributing to metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This book can be viewed as a summation of his views on an enormous range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology. Yet it is written in the terse, lucid, unpretentious style that has become a hallmark of Chisholm's work. The book is a treatise designed to defend an original, non-Aristotelian theory of categories. Chisholm argues that there are necessary things and contingent things, necessary things being things that are not capable of coming into being or passing away. He defends the argument from design and thus includes the category of necessary substance (God). Further contentions of the essay are that attributes are also necessary beings, that there are no such entities as "times," and that human beings are contingent substances but may not be material substances.
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