Ontological Reduction / by Reinhardt Grossmann.
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."
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| 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) |
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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.