Ontology Made Easy

New York: Oup Usa (2014)
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Existence questions have been topics for heated debates in metaphysics, but this book argues that they can often be answered easily, by trivial inferences from uncontroversial premises. This 'easy' approach to ontology leads to realism about disputed entities, and to the view that metaphysical disputes about existence questions are misguided.

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Amie Thomasson
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What is Conceptual Engineering and What Should it Be?David Chalmers - 2020 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 63.
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Realism and social structure.Elizabeth Barnes - 2017 - Philosophical Studies 174 (10):2417-2433.

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