The Fragmentation of Being

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The Fragmentation of Being ...

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The Fragmentation of Being Kris McDaniel 1 ...

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Contents Introduction Acknowledgments ix Ways of Being A Return to the Analogy of Being Ways of Being and Time Ca ...

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Acknowledgments I have been working on the issues discussed in this book for over a decade, and as a consequence I have many, ma ...

moral support, as well as amazingly detailed comments on drafts of every single chapter. Thank you, Joshua. Peter Finocchiaro an ...

(2010), and The Relationship Between Metaphysics and Logic Conference at the University of Southern California (2015). Earlier v ...

Peter Momtchiloff was an ideal editor, and helped steer this project to completion. Thank you, Peter. Neil Morris helped edit th ...

Introduction One of the oldest questions in metaphysics concerns not the various natures of beings but rather the nature of bein ...

In contemporary analytic metaphysics, the by far dominant view is that being is unitary. But in the philosophical tradition that ...

that which belongs to things, that which belongs to events, and that which belongs to ideal laws. And even in the early twentiet ...

There I explicate the more general idea of a feature’s being analogous and then apply this account to the case of being. Red fla ...

distinguish these distinctive kinds of ontological superiority, but also to show why they are properly thought of as distinctive ...

the way in which God exists and the way in which creatures exist are metaphysically more fundamental than existence simpliciter. ...

being. Among the ways of being that are given areExistenz(the kind of being enjoyed by creatures like ourselves), readiness-to-h ...