easy ontology 161, 164–6, 230
Ehring, Doug 186
endurantism 42, 57, 59, 60, 61–2, 184
adverbialism 99–100, 185
Ehring’s view 186
Hybrid view 100–2, 186
relationalist version of 99, 101, 186
entity-fundamentality 197, 220– 1
entity-grounding 229–38, 239, 242, 252– 4
essence
constitutive and consequential 245, 246–7,
257, 278, 282
fundamental and derivative 278
individual 278–9, 283
modal 256–7, 277, 286– 9
ontic 266, 269–76, 281
strict essence 136, 232, 244–7, 256– 89
total propositional 261–5, 266, 269, 270,
271 – 2, 273, 276, 280– 1
eternalism 78, 79, 80–1, 90, 93, 186
existentialism 264, 280, 288
Existenz7, 18, 22, 23, 24
as central mode of being (Heidegger) 26
as fundamental mode of being 28, 178, 277– 8
expressions
ambiguous 17
analogical 16–18, 22, 31
polysemous 17, 31, 49, 151–2, 165
pros henequivocal 15–17, 22
fact-grounding 238–48, 252– 4
fictional entities 84, 156–7, 162, 163
Fine, Kit
on composition 138
formal ontology 260
grounding 167, 227, 239, 249, 268
ontological dependence 252
strict essence 244–5, 259, 261, 279, 288
transparency 107– 8
truth in reality 45–6, 150
focal meaning 15, 17, 49
formal ontology 110, 135–7, 259, 260
Frege, Gottlob 4, 69
full reality:
axiom of 159, 198
perfectly natural properties sufficient
for 167–8, 177, 178–93, 194, 220, 221,
258 – 9
non-comparable definition of 216
genus 3, 7–8, 16, 31, 119
Giles of Rome 263, 275
Grossman, Reinhardt 115
grounding
aptitude for 232, 266– 9
big-G 240–1, 234– 4
entity,seeentity-grounding
fact 238–48, 252– 4
generic 239, 248– 50
ontic 266, 269, 271–4, 281
partial 229, 242, 284–5, 287
small-g 239, 240–4, 248, 249, 250
total 229
grounding monism 226, 227, 228, 248, 250,
251 – 5
grounding pluralism 223, 226–7, 228, 248–51,
252, 255
grounding variantism 244, 245
grue 29–30, 132, 209, 217, 226, 254
growing block theory 78, 80–1, 83, 85
haecceities 168, 186–9, 194
Heidegger, Martin 3, 6–7, 14–15, 18–26, 27–31,
31 – 3, 49, 55, 111, 125, 177–8, 277– 9
Henry of Ghent 273
Hirsch, Eli 13, 25
Hofweber, Thomas 165– 6
Home, Henry 182– 3
Hume, David 175, 182
Husserl, Edmund 3, 6, 63, 136, 176, 260
Identity pluralism 22, 51–2, 168
ideological parsimony 218–19, 236, 241
ideology 218
impossible objects 38, 69–70, 84, 156, 262,
263, 281
incomplete objects 66, 69
inconsistent objects 69
individualistic fragmentationalism (IF) 125,
188, 193– 4
intenionalia 69–70, 156– 7
island universes 90, 188– 9
Kanāda 124
Kant, Immanuel 2, 4, 65, 172, 174, 175, 189,
191, 192, 234
Leibniz, Gottfried 2, 234, 262, 273
levels of being 88–9, 122, 141, 142–3, 202–3,
206, 213
defined 88
Lewis, David
abundant theory of properties 51, 138
counterpart theory 127, 289
on duplication 127
indexical account of actuality 73, 76– 7
modal realism 156
on naturalness 27, 55, 148, 188, 195–6, 203– 4
on parthood 17
reductive account of modality 224
on sets 226
two-category ontology 111, 115
life 18, 19, 24–5, 176, 177
linguistic Eden 162– 3