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More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms

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Author(s): E. J. Lowe
Edition: 2
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 240

More Kinds of Being......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 16
The Varieties of 'Is'......Page 18
Individuals, Kinds, and Realism......Page 19
Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity......Page 21
New Developments......Page 23
2 Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity......Page 27
3 Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation......Page 44
4 Number, Unity, and Individuality......Page 57
5 The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence......Page 72
Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments......Page 87
6 Identity and Constitution......Page 92
7 Parts and Wholes......Page 107
Matter and Organisms......Page 119
Organisms and Persons......Page 128
Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity?......Page 140
9 Sortal Terms and Natural Laws......Page 156
10 Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference......Page 179
11 Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic......Page 194
Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic......Page 209
The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms......Page 213
On the Identity of Sorts......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 238