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In this important study David Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.
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- Title A World of States of Affairs
- Author D. M. Armstrong
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1997. 300p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive sy
- Date 1997-03-06
- ISBN 9780521580649 / 0521580641
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Metaphysics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96008598
- Dewey Decimal Code 111
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