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- catalog abstract "In this important study David Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.".
- catalog contributor b10316186.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Some preliminary doctrines -- 3. Properties I -- 4. Properties II -- 5. Powers and dispositions -- 6. Relations -- 7. Particulars -- 8. States of affairs -- 9. Independence -- 10. Modality -- 11. Number -- 12. Classes -- 13. Totality states of affairs -- 14. Singular causation -- 15. Laws I -- 16. Laws II -- 17. The unity of the world.".
- catalog description "In this important study David Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-276) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 285 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521580641 (hardback)".
- catalog identifier "0521589487 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in philosophy".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "111 20".
- catalog subject "B5704.A753 W67 1997".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Some preliminary doctrines -- 3. Properties I -- 4. Properties II -- 5. Powers and dispositions -- 6. Relations -- 7. Particulars -- 8. States of affairs -- 9. Independence -- 10. Modality -- 11. Number -- 12. Classes -- 13. Totality states of affairs -- 14. Singular causation -- 15. Laws I -- 16. Laws II -- 17. The unity of the world.".
- catalog title "A world of states of affairs / D.M. Armstrong.".
- catalog type "text".