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The Nature of Things (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Things (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics
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Originally published in 1973. In this systematic treatise, Anthony
Quinton examines the concept of substance, a philosophical
refinement of the everyday notion of a thing. Four distinct, but
not unconnected, problems about substance are identified: what
accounts for the individuality of a thing; what confers identity on
a thing; what is the relation between a thing and its appearances;
and what kind of thing is fundamental, in the sense that its
existence is logically independent of that of any other kind of
thing? In Part 1, the first two problems are discussed, while in
Part 2, the third and fourth are considered. Part 3 examines four
kinds of thing that have been commonly held to be in some way
non-material: abstract entities; the un-observable entities of
scientific theory; minds and their states; and, finally, values.
The author argues that theoretical entities and mental states are,
in fact, material. He gives a linguistic account of universals and
necessary truths and advances a naturalistic theory of value.
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