Cambridge Studies in Philosophy: A World of States of Affairs (Hardcover)

D M Armstrong; Professor of Philosophy Ernest Sosa; Professor of Philosophy Jonathan Dancy
Cambridge University Press
 9780521580649
0-521-58064-1

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges.

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the "logical atomism" of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. It will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.