Essentialism, Metaphysical Realism, and the Errors of Conceptualism

Metaphysical realism is the view that most of the objects that populate the world exist independently of our thought and have their natures independently of how, if at all, we conceive of them. It is committed, in my opinion, to a robust form of essentialism. Many modern forms of anti-realism have t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: E. Jonathan Lowe
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Éditions Kimé 2008-04-01
Series:Philosophia Scientiæ
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/222