Types: Essays in Metaphysics

by Eddy M. Zemach and Zemach

This book consists of a series of applications to ontology, the philosophy of mind, and aesthetics, of two nominalistic theses: first, that all the things we encounter (houses, cats, people, symphonies, and also hair, milk, red, and love) are types, and second, that things are ontologically incomplete. Types are material things that recur at several indices, at which they are identical with other things; thus in this world Man=Mortal, and today Jane=Happy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004095004
• ISBN13: 9789004095007
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"