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Writing the Book of the World (Hardcover)
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Writing the Book of the World (Hardcover)
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In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak
truly. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, Theodore Sider
argues that for a representation to be fully successful, truth is
not enough; the representation must also use the right
concepts-concepts that 'carve at the joints'-so that its conceptual
structure matches reality's structure. There is an objectively
correct way to 'write the book of the world'. Sider's argument
begins from the assertion that metaphysics is about the fundamental
structure of reality. Not about what's necessarily true; not about
what properties are essential; not about conceptual analysis; and
not about what there is. While inquiry into necessity, essence,
concepts, or ontology might help to illuminate reality's structure,
the ultimate goal is insight into this structure. Sider argues that
part of the theory of structure is an account of how structure
connects to other concepts. For example, structure can be used to
illuminate laws of nature, explanation, reference, induction,
physical geometry, substantivity, conventionality, objectivity, and
metametaphysics. Another part is an account of how structure
behaves. Since structure is a way of thinking about fundamentality,
Sider's account implies distinctive answers to questions about the
nature of fundamentality. These answers distinguish his theory of
structure from other recent theories of fundamentality, including
Kit Fine's theory of ground and reality, the theory of truthmaking,
and Jonathan Schaffer's theory of ontological dependence.
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