Ontology Made Easy free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Ontology Made Easy free ebook download

Category:
Philosophy

Views: 377
Likes: 78

Catalogue

Author(s):	Amie L. Thomasson

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0199385114
Pages:	360	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	stirkout	Upload Date:	6/7/2021 8:53:37 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless proliferation of positions and lack of any clear idea of how to resolve debates. The most prominent challenge to mainstream
ontological debates has come from the idea that disputants can be seen as using the quantifier with different meanings, leaving the dispute merely verbal. Nearly all of the work in defense of hard ontology has gone into arguing against quantifier variance.

This volume argues that hard ontology faces an entirely different challenge, which remains even if the threat of quantifier variance can be avoided. The challenge comes from the 'easy approach to ontology': a view that is arguably the heir to Carnap's own position. The idea of the easy approach is
that many ontological questions can be answered by undertaking trivial inferences from uncontroversial premises, making prolonged disputes about the questions out of place. This book aims to develop the easy approach to ontology, showing how it leads to both a first-order simple realism about the
disputed entities and a form of meta-ontological deflationism that takes ontological disputes themselves to be misguided, since existence questions may be answered by straightforward conceptual and/or empirical work. It also aims to defend the easy approach against a range of arguments wielded
against it and to show it to be a viable and attractive alternative to the quagmire of hard ontology.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3007030	Book	https://tezfiles.com/file/5e59e54ada4df/...		0.00	stirkout

Tags: Easy Made Ontology

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: