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- Against Facts
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- 2015
- Published by: The MIT Press
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summary
An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xviii
- I. Compositional Facts
- 1. Compositional Facts
- pp. 3-38
- 2. The Unity Problem
- pp. 39-84
- 3. Solving the Unity Problem
- pp. 85-106
- II. Propositional Facts
- pp. 107-122
- 4. Reductio
- pp. 123-158
- 5. A Fallback Position (1)
- pp. 159-194
- 6. A Fallback Position (2)
- pp. 195-224
- Conclusion: Farewell to Facts
- pp. 225-232
- References
- pp. 265-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262329644
Related ISBN(s)
9780262029216
MARC Record
OCLC
913956516
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
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