Ontology made easy /
This volume aims to develop the easy approach to ontology, showing how it leads to both a first-order simple realism about the disputed entities and a form of metaontological deflationism that takes ontological disputes themselves to be misguided, since existence questions may be answered by straigh...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The forgotten easy approach -- Whatever happened to Carnapian deflationism? -- The unbearable lightness of existence -- Easy ontology and its consequences -- Other ways of being suspicious -- Fictionalism versus deflationism -- Do easy arguments give us problematic ontological commitments? -- Do doubts about conceptual truths undermine easy arguments? -- Are easy arguments threatened by the bad company objection? -- Do easy arguments fail to answer ontological questions? -- Can hard ontological questions be revived in ontologese? -- Conclusion: The importance of not being earnest. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This volume aims to develop the easy approach to ontology, showing how it leads to both a first-order simple realism about the disputed entities and a form of metaontological deflationism that takes ontological disputes themselves to be misguided, since existence questions may be answered by straightforward conceptual and/or empirical work. It also aims to defend the easy approach against a range of objections and to show it to be a viable and attractive alternative to hard ontology. | |
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