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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Many philosophers have shown sympathy to the thought that reality is fundamentally positive. Julio De Rizzo formulates this idea precisely by means of the notion of grounding, and examines how the resulting thesis fares with respect to three much discussed classes of negative truths, namely that of negative predications, that of negative causal reports, and that of negative existential truths. By shedding light on the issues advocates of the thesis have to deal with, this work shows the positivist account to be a tenable position in metaphysics.
Authors and Affiliations
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Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Julio De Rizzo
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reasons Why Not
Book Subtitle: On the Positive Grounds of Negative Truths
Authors: Julio De Rizzo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05150-9
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-05149-3Published: 13 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-05150-9Published: 02 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology, Analytic Philosophy