A Theory of Universals: Volume 2: Universals and Scientific Realism - Hardcover

Armstrong, D. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521219507 ISBN 13: 9780521219501

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1978

Synopsis

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' realism. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology. The theory allows, too, for a convincing explanation of natural laws as relations between these universals.

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Book Description:

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science.

Review:

Volume two develops the author's own theory of `scientific realism', based not on linguistic conventions but on the potential and actual findings of natural science. -- Book Description

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0521219507
• ISBN 13: 9780521219501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216