Preface | |
The Basic Ontological Categories | p. 1 |
The Basic Concepts | p. 2 |
Individual Things and Events | p. 5 |
Beginnings and Processes | p. 5 |
Necessary Substance | p. 12 |
Properties | p. 14 |
Why We Should Admit Properties | p. 15 |
Universals vs. Tropes | p. 22 |
On Negative and Disjunctive Properties | p. 28 |
Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals | p. 37 |
Characteristica Universalis | p. 48 |
Preamble | p. 48 |
From Leibniz to Frege | p. 49 |
Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs | p. 51 |
Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language | p. 53 |
The Oil-Painting Principle | p. 56 |
Primitives and Definitions | p. 57 |
Substance | p. 64 |
Accidents | p. 67 |
Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms) | p. 70 |
Boundaries and Boundary Dependence | p. 71 |
Universals | p. 73 |
Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects | p. 78 |
A New Explanation | p. 78 |
An Application of the Foregoing Explanation | p. 82 |
Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types | p. 87 |
Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be? | p. 118 |
Motivation | p. 118 |
Salmon's Counterexample | p. 120 |
The Branching Conception | p. 125 |
Was Frege Right about Variable Objects? | p. 133 |
Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense | p. 157 |
Logical Atomism, What | p. 157 |
Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts | p. 161 |
Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions | p. 163 |
Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization | p. 166 |
Other Higher Order Functors | p. 168 |
Statistical Generalizations and Probability | p. 170 |
Laws of Nature and Causality | p. 171 |
Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others | p. 174 |
Resolution and Ultimate Facts | p. 175 |
Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date | p. 180 |
The Problem | p. 181 |
Aristotle | p. 182 |
Newtonian Self-Change | p. 183 |
Intentionality | p. 186 |
Temporally Extended Entities | p. 188 |
The Duality of Intentions | p. 189 |
Formal Ontology Today | p. 190 |
Leibniz on Properties and Individuals | p. 193 |
Index of Names | p. 205 |
Index of Subjects | p. 208 |
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