{"product_id":"the-abstract-and-the-concrete-further-essays-in-ontology","title":"The Abstract and the Concrete Further Essays in Ontology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Abstract and the Concrete presents nine essays in ontology by Peter van Inwagen. Three of the essays concern topics in meta-ontology: the idea of multiple modes of being; Carnap's idea that the questions of \"ontology,\" insofar as they are meaningful at all, are questions about which linguistic frameworks it is expedient to employ; the concept of one object's being metaphysically more fundamental that another. Three of the essays concern various topics\n\u003cbr\u003ethat pertain to the author's \"lower-case\" or \"lightweight\" platonism. (According to lightweight platonism, there are attributes-necessarily existent universals. These attributes are not constituents of\n\u003cbr\u003esubstances, they cannot enter into causal relations, and it is false that an F object is F in virtue of instantiating the attribute of being F.) The remaining three essays examine proposed answers to particular ontological questions: the question of the validity of mathematical fictionalism; the question whether it is analytic that at any place at which some xs are arranged chairwise, there is there a chair; the question of what it means to say that colour is an illusion, and whether (in the\n\u003cbr\u003esense determined) colour is an illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059036442862,"sku":"9780192870452","price":111.71,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192870452.jpg?v=1736489560","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/the-abstract-and-the-concrete-further-essays-in-ontology","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}