The concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics. Metaphysicians argue about which category of existence an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of categorization. Answers to these questions presuppose a clear understanding of what precisely an ontological category is, and Jan Westerhoff now provides the first in-depth analysis. After examining a variety of attempted definitions, he proceeds to argue for a new understanding of ontological categories, according to which they are systematizations of our knowledge of the world rather than essential characteristics of the world itself. Metaphysicians will find his work highly stimulating.
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Jan Westerhoff is at University of Oxford.
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order monadic property, joining behaviour, different adicities, ultimate sortals, preserving meaningfulness, ontological data, local relativism, green back door, unsaturated entities, gical categories, category iff, global relativism, gical category, dyadic property, structuralist logic, rigid dependence, generic dependence, similarity circles, ontological form, epistemic reading, trope theory, neutrality assumption, blind logic, same grammatical category, redundant sets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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order monadic property, joining behaviour, different adicities, ultimate sortals, preserving meaningfulness, ontological data, local relativism, green back door, unsaturated entities, gical categories, category iff, global relativism, gical category, dyadic property, structuralist logic, rigid dependence, generic dependence, similarity circles, ontological form, epistemic reading, trope theory, neutrality assumption, blind logic, same grammatical category, redundant sets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Theory of Categories (Nijhoff International Philosophy Series) by F.C. Brentano on page 13, and Back Matter
- Symbolic Logic by Irving M. Copi in Back Matter
- Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by D. A. Cruse in Back Matter
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Oxford Companions) by Richard L. Gregory in Back Matter
- Kleine Schriften by Gottlob Frege in Back Matter
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