Identity and Essence (eBook)

Baruch A. Brody (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5334-2 (ISBN)

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Baruch Brody contends that the fundamental assumption on which the tradition is based is erroneous and that once this assumption is shown to be in error, all philosophical problems in this area have to be rethought.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Schlagworte: Addition • ad hoc • Adoption • aqueous solution • Aristotle • author • Axiom • Begging the Question • Block grant • Causality • Circular definition • Clothing • coincidence • Concept • Constant conjunction • Contradiction • counterexample • Counterfactual conditional • Definition • Derek Parfit • direct experience • Dwelling • Empirical Evidence • entitlement • essentialism • estimation • Existence • Explanation • Falsity • First-Order Logic • fiscal capacity • Funding • Gratitude • Housing Unit • Hutu • Hutu Power • Identity of indiscernibles • Identity (philosophy) • Identity (social science) • income • Instance (computer science) • Instant • insurance • Kit Fine • Law of identity • learning • Logic • Materialism • mathematician • Mathematics • Mereological essentialism • Middle term • Modal property • Natural kind • Ontology • Ontology (information science) • organism • perception • Personality • Philosopher • Philosophy • philosophy of mathematics • philosophy of science • physical body • Plumbing • possible world • Posterior Analytics • Poverty • premise • Proceedings • Process Philosophy • Proportionality (mathematics) • Provision (contracting) • Psychology • Quantifier (linguistics) • Quantifier (logic) • reason • referent • Requirement • result • Revenue Sharing • rights • rigid designator • Rwanda • second-order logic • sodium • State Aid • State of affairs (sociology) • Subatomic particle • subject (philosophy) • Suggestion • theory • theory of change • The Other Hand • Time • Truth • Understanding • uniqueness • Universal property • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5334-6 / 1400853346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5334-2 / 9781400853342