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1 online resource |
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Cover; The Facts in LogicalSpace: A Tractarian Ontology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Technical Matters; Logical Consequence; Ontology and Ideology; Realism and Anti-Realism; Setting the Bar; Wittgenstein's Tractatus; 1: Factalism; 1.1 Just the Facts, Ma'am; 1.1.1 Four doctrines; FACTALISM; LOGICAL SPACE; STRUCTURELESSNESS; 1.1.2 Why bother?; FACT-NAMES; TRUTHMAKING; COMBINATORIAL THEORIES OF MODALITY; ONE-CATEGORY ONTOLOGIES; A FALLBACK POSITION; 1.1.3 Geometrically related facts and the ostrich; 1.2 The Grounding Project; 1.3 Grounding in Facts |
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1.3.1 The factalist's grounding projectONE STAGE, OR TWO?; 1.3.2 Setting the terms; 1.3.3 The flat-footed grounding story; 1.4 Inferential Unsystematicity; 1.4.1 The problem; 1.4.2 What the problem is; 1.4.3 What the problem isn't; 1.4.4 Why it's a problem for the flat-footed strategy; 1.5 The Tractatus to the Rescue; 1.5.1 Identity and the Tractarian reduction; 1.5.2 Adapting the strategy for factalists; 1.6 The Problem of the Patterns; 1.6.1 Patterns; 1.6.2 So what?; 1.7 An Appeal to Metaphysics; 1.7.1 The insufficiency of similarity; 1.7.2 Taking the geometry seriously |
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2: Tractarian Geometry2.1 The Big Picture; 2.1.1 The structures of Tractarian geometry; QUALITY SPACES; HYPERSURFACES; THE PREDICATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; 2.1.2 Finding predications in a Tractarian geometry; 2.1.3 Relations and orientations; 2.2 The Formal Language; 2.2.1 The logic; 2.2.2 Primitive geometric predicates; 2.2.3 Compositional and nihilistic geometries; 2.3 Quality Spaces; 2.3.1 Characteristic axioms for ffl; 2.3.2 Lines; 2.3.3 Dimensionality, connectivity, and quality spaces; INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; REGULARITY; TINY GEOMETRIES; 2.3.4 Surfaces; 2.4 Hypersurfaces; 2.4.1 Diagonals |
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2.4.2 Similarity and anti-connection2.4.3 Colouring inside the lines; ZAPPING; EXCLUSION; DIAGONAL PLENITUDE; 2.4.4 Cross-space similarity; 2.5 Predicational Determination; 2.5.1 The Predicational Determination theorem; 2.5.2 Coda: qualitative supervenience revisited; ABANDONING QSOF; PERMUTATION INVARIANCE IN THE APPEARANCES; GLOW; WHAT TO DO?; 2.6 Proofs and Formalities; 2.6.1 Lines and spaces; 2.6.2 n-Dimensional surfaces; 2.6.3 Anti-connectivity; 2.6.4 Similarity and hypersurfaces; 2.6.5 Global regularity; 2.6.6 Proving Predicational Determination; 2.6.7 Glowing results |
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3: Grounding Stories3.1 The Main Idea; 3.2 The Holistic Grounding Story; 3.2.1 The representation theorem; FRAMES, FLESHINGS-OUT, AND COMPLETIONS; REPRESENTATION; ONCE AGAIN, WITH PRECISION; CANONICAL GEOMETRIES; 3.2.2 Representation and the holistic grounding story; 3.2.3 Inferential systematicity?; 3.2.4 Aside: tiny geometries; 3.3 Abstracta; 3.3.1 The options; PLATONISTIC FACTALISM; NOMINALISTIC FACTALISM; SETS AS ORDINARIA?; A PLAN OF ATTACK; 3.3.2 What about sentences?; 3.3.3 Eliminating L; 3.3.4 Predicational Determination without functions; 3.3.5 Orientation surfaces |
| Summary |
Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts. But if objects and properties aren't 'already' there, how do the facts give rise to them? Jason Turner develops and defends a novel answer to the question, which depends on a theory of quasi-geometric 'logical space' |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Logic.
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Ontology.
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Ontology
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Logic
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Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191817267 |
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0191817260 |
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9780191505287 |
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0191505285 |
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