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Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Theodore Sider

Current price: $63.00
Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Theodore Sider

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In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, Theodore Sider argues that for a representation to be fully successful, truth is not enough; the representation must also use the right concepts - concepts that 'carve at thejoints' - so that its conceptual structure matches reality's structure. There is an objectively correct way to 'write the book of the world'.Sider's argument begins from the assertion that metaphysics is about the fundamental structure of reality. Not about what's necessarily true; not about what properties are essential; not about conceptual analysis; and not about what there is. While inquiry into necessity, essence, concepts, orontology might help to illuminate reality's structure, the ultimate goal is insight into this structure. Sider argues that part of the theory of structure is an account of how structure connects to other concepts. For example, structure can be used to illuminate laws of nature, explanation, reference, induction, physical geometry, substantivity, conventionality, objectivity, and metametaphysics. Another part is an account of how structure behaves. Since structure is a way of thinking about fundamentality, Sider's account implies distinctive answers to questions about the nature offundamentality. These answers distinguish his theory of structure from other recent theories of fundamentality, including Kit Fine's theory of ground and reality, the theory of truthmaking, and Jonathan Schaffer's theory of ontological dependence. | Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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