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100 1 $aChisholm, Roderick M.
245 12 $aA realistic theory of categories :$ban essay on
ontology /$cRoderick M. Chisholm.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge
University Press,$c1996.
300 $aix, 146 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-144)
and index.
520 $aRoderick Chisholm has been for many years one of
the most important and influential philosophers contributing
to metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This
book can be viewed as a summation of his views on an
enormous range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology.
Yet it is written in the terse, lucid, unpretentious style
that has become a hallmark of Chisholm's work. The book is a
treatise designed to defend an original, non-Aristotelian
theory of categories. Chisholm argues that there are
necessary things and contingent things, necessary things
being things that are not capable of coming into being or
passing away. He defends the argument from design and thus
includes the category of necessary substance (God). Further
contentions of the essay are that attributes are also
necessary beings, that there are no such entities as
"times," and that human beings are contingent substances but
may not be material substances.
650 0 $aOntology.
650 0 $aCategories (Philosophy)
650 0 $aRealism.
907 $b18852701
