Are there nonexistent things? What is the nature of informative identity statements? Are the notions of essential property and of essence intelligible, and, if so, how are they to be understood? Are individual things material substances or clusters of qualities? Can the account of the unity of a com
Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth
โ Scribed by Colin McGinn
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 123
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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