2. Properties, Facts and Complexity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems 7
4. • CATEGORIES STUDIES •
5. 1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World 15
6. 2. Properties, Facts and Complexity 67
7. 3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories 89
8. 4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two 109
9. 5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category 127
10. 6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational 153
11. 7. Categories and Categorial Entities 165
12. 8. Including These Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology 181
13. Bibliography 225