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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 철학 > 형이상학
· ISBN : 9781405182560
· 쪽수 : 240쪽
· 출판일 : 2009-11-13
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Preface* vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
The Varieties of 'Is' 3
Individuals, Kinds, and Realism 4
Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity 6
New Developments* 8
2 Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity 12
3 Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation 29
4 Number, Unity, and Individuality* 42
5 The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence 57
Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments 72
6 Identity and Constitution 77
7 Parts and Wholes 92
8 Persons and Their Bodies 104
Matter and Organisms 104
Organisms and Persons 113
Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity? 125
9 Sortal Terms and Natural Laws 141
10 Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference* 164
11 Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic 179
Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic 194
12 What Sorts of Things Are There?* 198
The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms 198
On the Identity of Sorts 212
Bibliography* 217
Index 223
