Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

by George Englebretsen

Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn't give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110325128
• ISBN13: 9783110325126
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary