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Gary Rosenkrantz,Joshua Hoffman

Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics

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  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Categories are of explanatory value in metaphysics partly because a category is an essential kind: a kind such that, necessarily, whatever belongs to it belongs to it essentially.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    However, a nonspatial spirit or soul would be a concrete entity of an atypical sort that lacks spatial or temporal parts.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    (D1) x is a concrete entity = df. x belongs to an ontological category (at Level C) that has among its possible instances entities having spatial or temporal parts,6 and (D2) x is an abstract entity = df. x is not a concrete entity
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    It is an interesting question when a kind is too specific to count as an ontological category.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Subdivisions of the category of substance (at Level D) might include physical object and spirit, subdivisions of boundary might include surface and edge, and so on.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Pairs, trios, and quartets of substances of which those substances are parts are collections (within mereology, or the theory of parts, one calls a collection of this kind a mereological sum or fusion).
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Holes, shadows, and gaps are absences (also known as privations).
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    Surfaces, edges, and corners are boundaries (also known as limits).
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Instants and durations are times.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Extended spatial regions and points are places.
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