Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence (Philosophical Explorations) - Hardcover

David Weissman (author)|George Kimball Plochmann (Foreword)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809307995 ISBN 13: 9780809307999

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977

Synopsis

This new work by David Weissman builds on his earlier Dispositional Proper­ties and makes a signal contribution to the study of metaphysics. Here, broad­ening and enriching the point of view adopted in his earlier work, Weissman cites and criticizes a large number of theories proposed by authors from Plato to the most recent exploration in lan­guage theory and metaphysics.

Students of Wittgenstein will be especially interested in Mr. Weissman’s critical examination of Wittgenstein’s picture theory of properties and by Weissman’s radical departure from Wittgenstein and other recent meta­physicians in speaking of properties instead of forms, which he holds, consti­tute a neutral ground for existence and meaning.

About this title

About the Author

David Weissman is Associate Pro­fessor of Philosophy at the City College of New York.

George Kimball Ploch­mann is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbon­dale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809307995
• ISBN 13: 9780809307999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312