Nominalism and Realism: Volume 1: Universals and Scientific Realism - Hardcover

Armstrong, D. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521217415 ISBN 13: 9780521217415

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1978

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This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' realism.

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This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' realism. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology. The theory allows, too, for a convincing explanation of natural laws as relations between these universals.

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Book by Armstrong D M

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0521217415
• ISBN 13: 9780521217415
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164