Eternal Possibilities : A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence

Weissman, David

ISBN 10: 0809307995 / ISBN 13: 9780809307999

Published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1977

About this Item

Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked, dust-dulled and foxed dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 299 pages ; 24 cm. Series; Philosophical explorations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Platonism in the Tractatus -- 2. Two Kinds of Possibility: Material and Eternal -- 3. Relations among Eternal Possibilities: The Nexus -- 4. Possibilities Instantiated: The Actual World -- 5. Carnap, Goodman, and Quine on the Relation of Language to the World -- 6. Meaning: The Representation of Possibilities in Language -- Index -- Author Bio -- Back Cover. Subjects; Knowledge, Theory of. Metaphysics. Language and languages-Philosophy. First philosophy. Epistemology. 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eternal Possibilities : A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence
• Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809307995
• ISBN 13: 9780809307999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 3 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

This new work by David Weissman builds on his earlier Dispositional Proper­ties and makes a signal contribution to the study of metaphysics. Here, broad­ening and enriching the point of view adopted in his earlier work, Weissman cites and criticizes a large number of theories proposed by authors from Plato to the most recent exploration in lan­guage theory and metaphysics.

Students of Wittgenstein will be especially interested in Mr. Weissman’s critical examination of Wittgenstein’s picture theory of properties and by Weissman’s radical departure from Wittgenstein and other recent meta­physicians in speaking of properties instead of forms, which he holds, consti­tute a neutral ground for existence and meaning.

About the Author

David Weissman is Associate Pro­fessor of Philosophy at the City College of New York.

George Kimball Ploch­mann is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbon­dale.