A World of States of Affairs

by D.M. Armstrong

Book Overview

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the logical atomism of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521589487
• ISBN13: 9780521589482
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.0"