Ontological Reduction / by Reinhardt Grossmann.

• Author: Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931-
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press,, 1973.; ©1973.
• Year of Publication: 1973
• Language: English
• Series: Indiana University humanities series, v. 72
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource vi, 215 pages)

Ontological Reduction offers a philosophical analysis, described in its author's 1970 preface to the text as follows: "A discussion of ontological reduction, with special reference to the status of selected categories and culminating in the outline of a list of categories."

Table of Contents

Introduction: A principle of acquaintance -- Perceiving and sensing -- Intuition and judgment -- Atomic and molecular facts -- pt. One: Numbers and quantifiers -- Abbreviations -- Identity and equivalence -- Descriptions and Leibniz's law -- Recursive definitions -- Definition by abstraction -- Existence and the quantifiers -- Necessity -- Possible entities -- Implicit definitions -- Constructional definitions -- pt. Two: Properties and classes -- Contextual definitions -- Property abstraction -- Sets versus classes -- Impredicative defrinitions -- pt. Three: Individuals and structures -- Wholes and parts -- A problem of perception -- Bundles of properties -- Spatial versus ontological analysis -- Emgergent properties -- Conclusion: a list of categories.