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The End of Existence: Membership and Metaphysics.

The End of Existence: Membership and Metaphysics.

・ISBN 978-1-84014-372-0 hard

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著者・編者Rampersad, Garvin,
シリーズAvebury Series in Philosophy
出版社(Ashgate, UK)
出版年月1998
ページ数166 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<260-3378>

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The aim of this text is to counter the paradoxes of causality and induction as presented by empirical scepticism, though the work is not a dry critique of others' efforts in this area. In order to address these issues, the author presents his instinctive belief in the interconnectedness of the world's elements from a conceptual point of view. The work is not epistemological, but metaphysical and logical, and the assumptions are made in these areas. The principal concept is "membership", which appears in logic, language and metaphysics. Truth, existence and reference are shown to be forms of membership and, as such, invalid concepts. The famous paradoxes stretch from that of the liar to Russell's result from this misconcept, which is responsible for the paradoxes of causality and induction.