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MODERATE REALISM AND ITS LOGIC By D. W. Mertz - Hardcover

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Book Title
Moderate Realism and Its Logic
ISBN-10
0300065612
Genre
PHILOSOPHY
ISBN
9780300065619

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300065612
ISBN-13
9780300065619
eBay Product ID (ePID)
119309

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
328 Pages
Publication Name
Moderate Realism and Its Logic
Language
English
Subject
History & Surveys / General, General, Metaphysics, Logic, Movements / Realism
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Philosophy
Author
D. W. Mertz
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-044390
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
149/.2
Synopsis
Instance ontology, or particularism--the doctrine that asserts the individuality of properties and relations--has been a persistent topic in Western philosophy, discussed in works by Plato and Aristotle, by Muslim and Christian scholastics, and by philosophers of both realist and nominalist positions. This book by D. W. Mertz is the first sustained analysis that applies the rules and systems of mathematics and logic to instance ontology in order to argue for its validity and for its problem-solving capacities and to associate it with a version of the realist position that Mertz calls "moderate realism." Mertz surveys the history of instance ontology in writings from Plato and Aristotle through Leibniz, followed by modern philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and D. M. Armstrong, among others. He also includes a thorough critique of the recent work of Keith Campbell and other contemporary nominalists. Building on the insights gained through this historical overview, he delves deeper into the logic of instance ontology and uncovers some of its extraordinary problem-solving features: distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate impredicative reasoning; uniformly diagnosing the self-referential paradoxes; being free from the limitation theorems of G del and Tarski; providing a basis for the derivation of arithmetic construed intensionally; and formally distinguishing identity and indiscernibility., Instance ontology, or particularism--the doctrine that asserts the individuality of properties and relations--has been a persistent topic in Western philosophy, discussed in works by Plato and Aristotle, by Muslim and Christian scholastics, and by philosophers of both realist and nominalist positions. This book by D. W. Mertz is the first sustained analysis that applies the rules and systems of mathematics and logic to instance ontology in order to argue for its validity and for its problem-solving capacities and to associate it with a version of the realist position that Mertz calls "moderate realism." Mertz surveys the history of instance ontology in writings from Plato and Aristotle through Leibniz, followed by modern philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and D. M. Armstrong, among others. He also includes a thorough critique of the recent work of Keith Campbell and other contemporary nominalists. Building on the insights gained through this historical overview, he delves deeper into the logic of instance ontology and uncovers some of its extraordinary problem-solving features: distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate impredicative reasoning; uniformly diagnosing the self-referential paradoxes; being free from the limitation theorems of Gödel and Tarski; providing a basis for the derivation of arithmetic construed intensionally; and formally distinguishing identity and indiscernibility.
LC Classification Number
B835.M37 1996

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