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9780521589482

A World of States of Affairs

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521589482

  • ISBN10:

    0521589487

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-03-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past 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. It will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
1 Introduction
1(10)
2 Some preliminary doctrines
11(8)
3 Properties I
19(28)
4 Properties II
47(22)
5 Powers and dispositions
69(16)
6 Relations
85(10)
7 Particulars
95(18)
8 States of affairs
113(26)
9 Independence
139(9)
10 Modality
148(27)
11 Number
175(10)
12 Classes
185(11)
13 Totality states of affairs
196(6)
14 Singular causation
202(18)
15 Laws I
220(22)
16 Laws II
242(21)
17 The unity of the world
263(7)
References 270(7)
Index 277

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