{"product_id":"the-abstract-and-the-concrete-peter-van-inwagen-9780192870452","title":"The Abstract and the Concrete: Further Essays in Ontology","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Abstract and the Concrete\u003c\/em\u003e 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 that 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 substances, 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 sense determined) colour is an illusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Van Inwagen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192870459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192870452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Peter Van Inwagen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44920085479679,"sku":"9780192870452","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a84d3580-f50c-4152-a6bf-f37af8fa5951.jpg?v=1710360151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-abstract-and-the-concrete-peter-van-inwagen-9780192870452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}