Metaphysics: An Introduction |
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SUBSTANCE 25 | 25 |
ESSENCE AND ACCIDENT | 53 |
CAUSATION 7333 | 71 |
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Alexander analysis argument Aristotle Aristotle's attributes Ben Nevis categorial description category of particular category of substance causation cause characterisation claim conceptual realism conceptual scheme consequence contingent counterfactuals criteria of identity criterion Descartes descriptive metaphysics distinction entities essential properties events and processes example existence experience fact fundamental features gold Hamlyn Hume Hume's Humean idea individual instantiations involves J. L. Mackie J. M. E. McTaggart judgement Kant Kripke language Leibniz Locke Locke's Lockean logical Mackie McTaggart metaphysical realism natural kind terms necessary condition necessity nominal essence notion philosophers physical objects possible worlds predicate primary substance priori private language argument problem propositions public agreement question Quinton real essence reason recognise reference reidentification rigid designators secondary substances sense sentence simply spatial and temporal status Strawson substratum sufficient condition talk about reality temporal relations theory thesis thought and talk true truth unique Zeno's paradoxes