Essence and Existence (Firefly) 0198854293, 9780198854296
Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on
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English Pages 320 [317] Year 2020
Table of contents :
Cover
Title_Pages
Contents
Preface
Frontispiece
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Essence_and_Definition_by_Abstraction
Essence_and_Existence
The_Problem_of_De_Re_Modality
Ontology_Deflated
Ontological_Categories_and_the_Problem_of_Expressibility_with_ystein_Linnebo
What_Makes_True_Universal_Statements_True
Exact_Truthmakers_Modality_and_Essence
S5_as_the_Logic_of_Metaphysical_Modality_Two_Arguments_for_and_Two_Arguments_against
Relative_Necessity_Reformulated_with_Jessica_Leech
Definition_Abstraction_Postulation_and_Magic
Secondorder_Logic_Properties_Semantics_and_Existential_Commitments
The_Problem_of_Mathematical_Objects
Properties_Predication_and_Arbitrary_Sets
Ordinals_by_Abstraction
Bolzanos_Definition_of_Analytic_Propositions_with_Crispin_Wright
Bibliography_of_the_Writings_of_Bob_Hale
Bibliography_of_Works_Cited
Index
