TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulligan,Kevin
TI  - Language, truth, and ontology
T2  - Philosophical studies series
SN  - 079231509X
AV  - BD311 .L36 1992
U1  - 111 20
PY  - 1992///]
CY  - Dordrecht, Boston
PB  - Kluwer Academic Publishers
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Truth
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; The Basic Ontological Categories --; 2; The Basic Concepts --; 3; Individual Things and Events --; 4; Beginnings and Processes --; 5; Necessary Substance --; Properties --; 1; Why We Should Admit Properties --; 2; Universals vs. Tropes --; On Negative and Disjunctive Properties --; Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals --; Characteristica Universalis --; 1; Preamble --; 2; From Leibniz to Frege --; 3; Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs --; 4; Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language --; 5; The Oil-Painting Principle --; 6; Primitives and Definitions --; 7; Substance --; 8; Accidents --; 9; Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms) --; 10; Boundaries and Boundary Dependence --; 11; Universals --; Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects --; 1; A New Explanation --; 2; An Application of the Foregoing Explanation --; Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types --; Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be? --; 1; Motivation --; 2; Salmon's Counterexample --; 3; The Branching Conception --; Was Frege Right about Variable Objects? --; Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense --; 2; Logical Atomism, What --; 3; Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts --; 4; Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions --; 5; Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization --; 6; Other Higher Order Functors --; 7; Statistical Generalizations and Probability --; 8; Laws of Nature and Causality --; 9; Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others --; 10; Resolution and Ultimate Facts --; Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date --; 2; The Problem --; 3; Aristotle --; 4; Newtonian Self-Change --; 5; Intentionality --; 6; Temporally Extended Entities --; 7; The Duality of Intentions --; 8; Formal Ontology Today --; Leibniz on Properties and Individuals --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
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