Language, truth, and ontology / 
edited by Kevin Mulligan. 
 - x, 211 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Philosophical studies series ;  v. 51 .
 - Philosophical studies series ;  v. 51. .
<br/><br/> Includes three papers presented at a colloquium held in Geneva, 3-5 June 1988 and three from a colloquium held in Zinal, June 1-3, 1990. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface --  The Basic Ontological Categories --  The Basic Concepts --  Individual Things and Events --  Beginnings and Processes --  Necessary Substance --  Properties --  Why We Should Admit Properties --  Universals vs. Tropes --  On Negative and Disjunctive Properties --  Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals --  Characteristica Universalis --  Preamble --  From Leibniz to Frege --  Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs --  Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language --  The Oil-Painting Principle --  Primitives and Definitions --  Substance --  Accidents --  Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms) --  Boundaries and Boundary Dependence --  Universals --  Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects --  A New Explanation --  An Application of the Foregoing Explanation --  Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types --  Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be? --  Motivation --  Salmon's Counterexample --  The Branching Conception --  Was Frege Right about Variable Objects? --  Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense --  Logical Atomism, What --  Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts --  Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions --  Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization --  Other Higher Order Functors --  Statistical Generalizations and Probability --  Laws of Nature and Causality --  Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others --  Resolution and Ultimate Facts --  Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date --  The Problem --  Aristotle --  Newtonian Self-Change --  Intentionality --  Temporally Extended Entities --  The Duality of Intentions --  Formal Ontology Today --  Leibniz on Properties and Individuals --  Index of Names --  Index of Subjects.  2.  3.  4.  5.  1.  2.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  1.  2.  1.  2.  3.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>079231509X 9780792315094 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ontology--Congresses<br/>Language and languages--Philosophy--Congresses<br/>Truth--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD311  / .L36 1992 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>111