Getting Real: Ockham on the Human Contribution to the Nature and Production of Artifacts
Given his known predilection for ontological parsimony, Ockham’s ontology of artifacts is unsurprisingly reductionist: artifacts are nothing over and above their existing and appropriately ordered parts. However, the case of artifacts is notable in that they are real objects that human artisans prod...
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MDPI AG
2022-08-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/7/5/90 |