The Fragmentation of Being
this notion of transparency, and in fact distinguishes several varieties of transpar- ency. One of them ismodal transparency, wh ...
4. Categories of Being 4.1 Introduction A central task ofontologyis to discover the correct list ofontological categories. A cen ...
pursuing the second project is not straightforward. There are several methodological considerations worth stating explicitly at ...
On one line of thought, we do grasp, at least dimly, categorial distinctions between certain entities. As noted in earlier chapt ...
existences.^2 Sometimes this principle is glossed as the view that any pattern of fundamental properties and relations is possib ...
belongs? Do objects necessarily belong to their ontological categories? Are there fundamental differences betweenontologicalcate ...
properties out of individuals. On this view, the set of properties does not correspond to an ontological category since properti ...
consequences, they are unintuitive in themselves. I would prefer to develop a theory that does not imply them. (Understandably, ...
but neither C1 nor C2 wholly contains the other. Here is a brief argument from Westerhoff’s account to Sommer’s Law.^13 Ontologi ...
is a constraint on our account of ontological categories, neither Sommer’s Law nor the existence of a topmost category can also ...
The notion of kind inclusion induces a partial ordering on kinds; ontological categories are those kinds that appear in the high ...
depends on kind G”is possible. For now, I won’t settle the question of to which ontological category ontological categories belo ...
the class of substances, but the latter might be an ontological category whereas the former is not an ontological category. West ...
to be perfectly natural. But I have two concerns about this. Thisfirst might be somewhat question-begging in this context, but i ...
be an ontological category. Is this because it is not generalenough? So the cut-off problem remains. The cut-off problem is seri ...
Aquinas is not alone in thinking that there is a close connection between onto- logical categories and senses of“being.”^31 The ...
Incidentally, that there is a close connection between categories and modes of being has been defended by philosophers outside o ...
any property had by the object. Properties partition the beings in the world. Onto- logical categories partitionbeing itself. Le ...
committed to the existence of states of affairs and sets of them and their constitu- ents.) This neutrality also extends to the ...
that objects belong to their ontologically categories essentially, cannot. And, if one is suspicious of“absolute”de remodal prop ...
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