- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Ontological preliminaries -- The indispensability of logical necessity -- Modality : fundamental and irreducible -- Absolute modality -- The source of logical necessities -- Metaphysical necessities -- Necessary beings : properties and numbers -- Higher-order logics -- Contingent beings -- Possibilities -- Essential knowledge.
- LCCN
- 2013940150
- OCLC
- ssj0001164550
- Author
Hale, Bob, 1945-
- Title
Necessary beings [electronic resource] : an essay on ontology, modality, and the relations between them / Bob Hale.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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