Ontological categories : their nature and significance /
This work shows how the concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics and how metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of cat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Summary: | This work shows how the concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics and how metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of categorization. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191536465 0191536466 0199285047 9780199285044 1423771079 9781423771074 9780191713699 0191713694 |