Ontology Made Easy

Ontology Made Easy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780199385119
ISBN-13 : 0199385114
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Book Synopsis Ontology Made Easy by : Amie Lynn Thomasson

Download or read book Ontology Made Easy written by Amie Lynn Thomasson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existence questions have been topics for heated debates in metaphysics, but this book argues that they can often be answered easily, by trivial inferences from uncontroversial premises. This 'easy' approach to ontology leads to realism about disputed entities, and to the view that metaphysical disputes about existence questions are misguided.


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