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This text is a systematic treatise on formal ontology or general metaphysics. Ontological issues - states of affairs, properties, actual existence, identity, exemplification, and others - are always discussed within, and in relation to, formal axiomatic systems. Starting with a theory of states of affairs, these systems become more and more comprehensive, complex and powerful, until finally the level of a universal ontology of intensional entities is reached. The central unifying notion throughout the constructions is that of part. There are many occasions on which historical ontological theories are discussed, notably those of Leibniz. The book should appeal to ontologists and metaphysicians who have a training in formal logic and who are interested in systematic ontological theories which are logically precise both with respect to the deduction of principles and the definition of concepts. It should also be of interest to analytic philosophers and historians of philosophy.

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Author:   Uwe Meixner
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   264
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.660kg
ISBN:  

9780792347170

ISBN 10:   079234717
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   31 August 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I.1 The Central Axioms for the Part-Concept “P”.- I.2 Concepts based on “P” and Elementary Theorems.- I.3 The Concept of State of Affairs.- I.4 Functional Terms Definable by “P”.- I.5 The Conjunction Axiom.- I.6 The Exhaustion Axiom.- I.7 The Connection Axiom.- I.8 Theorems for Negation, Conjunction and Disjunction.- I.9 The Big Disjunction.- I.10 Possible Worlds and Elementary States of Affairs.- I.11 Possibility and Necessity.- I.12 The World and the Truth.- I.13 The Law of Non-Contradiction.- I.14 The Law of Excluded Middle.- I.15 Laws of Truth and Falsity.- I.16 Contingency.- I.17 A Further Examination of Axioms AP7 – AP9.- I.18 The Hierarchies of States of Affairs.- I.19 The Discreteness of “P*”.- I.20 The Cardinality of the Universe of States of Affairs.- II.1 Intensional Parthood between Properties.- II.2 New Readings of Predicates and Functional Terms, and Inherence.- II.3 Actual Existence for Accidents and Substances.- II.4 Real Subsistence as a Property?.- II.5 Laws of Actual Existence.- II.6 Laws of Inherence, and Superessentialism.- II.7 Leibniz’s Principium.- II.8 Once More: Real Subsistence as a Property?.- II.9 The Philosophy of Leibniz and the Ontology of Properties.- II.10 Meinongian Objects in the Ontology of Properties.- II.11 Time-Free and Momentary Material Individuals.- II.12 The Mereology of Gorups.- III.1 Categorial Predicates, Language LPT1, System PT1.- III.2 Saturation and Extraction.- III.3 Parthood and Identity for Properties.- III.4 Important Singular Terms for Properties.- III.5 The Principle of Property-Quanta and the Exhaustion- and Connection-Principle for Properties.- III.6 Properties by Conjunction and Properties by Extraction.- III.7 Essential and Accidental Properties.- III.8 Maximally Consistent Properties andthe Property Specific to an Individual.- III.9 -Exemplification.- III.10 The Relationship between Maximally Consistent Properties, Individuals and Possible Worlds.- III.11 Individuals and Leibniz-Individuals.- III.12 Counterpart Theory.- III.13 Actual Existence for Individuals and Leibniz-Individuals.- III.14 The Modelling of Sets and Extensions.- III.15 Predicates and Properties.- III.16 Modalizers and Quantifiers.- III.17 Conceptions of Properties, and their Number.- IV.1 The System IOU: First Stage.- IV.2 The System IOU: Second Stage.- IV.3 The System IOU: Third Stage.- IV.4 Actual Existence, Identity, and the Fundamental Status of States of Affairs.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Principles, Proofs and Definitions.- System P.- A Variant of System P.- The Leibnizian System.- The Mereology of Momentary Material Individuals.- System PT1.- System IOU.- Index of Subjects.- Index of names.- Literature.

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