Title
Grossmann on Existence and Property-Instances : Suarez’s Way Out
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School/Department
Talbot School of Theology
Description
Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.
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Keywords
Grossmann, Reinhardt, -- 1931-; Ontology
ISBN
978-3110322170
Publication Date
3-22-2010
Publication Source
Studies in the ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann
Inclusive pages
pp. 170-199
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
De Gruyter
City
Berlin
Disciplines
Epistemology | Metaphysics
Recommended Citation
Moreland, James Porter (2010). Grossmann on Existence and Property-Instances : Suarez’s Way Out. Studies in the ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann. pp. 170-199. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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