Research Catalog

Title

Necessary factual truth / Gregory M. Browne.

Author

Browne, Gregory Michael.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xxii, 388 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Truth
• truth
• Wahrheitstheorie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Opposing Views -- The Principal Grounds for the Denial of Necessary Factual Truths -- Dichotomism -- Underlying Premises -- Evolution of These Views -- Preliminaries: Terms, References, Concepts, Meanings, and Declaratives -- Meanings -- Introduction to Extensions and Intensions -- Extensions Further Considered -- Intensions Further Considered -- Descriptions -- What Meanings Are -- Declaratives -- Conditionals -- Categories and Classes -- Categories -- Some Special Considerations Regarding Attributes -- An objection to attributes -- Complex attributes and attributes of attributes -- Individuals and Classes -- Persistance of an Individual Through Change -- Individual Attributes -- General Attributes, and Resemblance -- Resemblance -- All resemblances as reducible to resemblances of attributes -- Resemblance and distinguishing types of attribute -- Armstrong's Objection to Tropes and My Reply -- How Much of the Doctrine is Necessary for My Conclusions -- Individual or General Attributes of Individuals -- Individuals' Intensions -- Peculiar Attributes of Individuals -- "Common" Attributes of Classes -- Classes' Intensions -- Common and Peculiar Attributes of Classes -- Universal and Particular Predication -- Common Attributes of Individuals-as-Classes -- Intensions of Individuals-as-Classes -- Intensional Definitions and Descriptions -- Types of Intensional Definitions of Individuals and Classes -- Completeness of Descriptions of Individuals and Classes -- Definitions by Peculiar Attributes.

ISBN

• 0761818863
• 9780761818861

LCCN

00048860

OCLC

• ocm45137522
• 45137522
• SCSB-1200191

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library