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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2010
      October 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511663833
      9780521411318
      9780521037617
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663833
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.469kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.384kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and logic, the idea of possibility, hierarchies of universals, and causation. He argues that neither language nor logic is a reliable guide to the nature of reality and that basic universals are the fundamental type of universal and are central to causation. All assertions and predications about the natural world are ultimately founded on these basic universals. A distinction is drawn between unified particulars (which reveal natural principle of unity) and arbitrary particulars (which lack such a principle); unified particulars are the terms of causal relations and thus the real constituents of the world. The world is not made up of events but of unified particulars and basic universals.

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    "Newman's presentation of his own theory is thorough and solidly argued, and his criticisms of rival doctrines are generally quite persuasive." Review of Metaphysics

    "Throughout, the book is very clearly written, and shows an impressive grasp of the relevant literature." Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University

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