Talking about nothing : numbers, hallucinations, and fictions /

This work reconfigures metaphysics in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties and are not the truth-makers for the truths and f...

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Numbers, hallucinations, and fictions
1. Verfasser:
Azzouni, Jody
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Zusammenfassung:
This work reconfigures metaphysics in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties and are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.
Umfang:
1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-989003-X
0-19-993768-0
1-282-77604-5
9786612776045
0-19-978043-9
Schlagworte:
Ontology.
Hallucinations and illusions.
Fictions, Theory of.
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