10. Natural Kinds and Ordering Strategies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I: The Task and Scope of Ontology
5. 1. Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline 3
6. 2. Ontology in Its Different Varieties 11
7. 3. Logical Tools for Ontological Analysis 18
8. 4. Mereological Tools of Ontological Analysis 35
9. Part II: Ontological Categories
10. 5. Categories as Uppermost Kinds 47
11. 6. Categorial Realism 52
12. 7. Modalities 64
13. 8. Categorial Conceptualism 77
14. 9. Parts and Wholes 89
15. 10. Natural Kinds and Ordering Strategies 99
16. Part III: The Nature of Existence
17. 11. Non-being 107
18. 12. Being and Existence 112
19. 13. Ontological Commitment 120
20. 14. Identity 137
21. Part IV: Ontological Proofs
22. 15. The Existence of God 147
23. 16. God as an A Priori Idea 159
24. 17. Gödel’s Proof 166
25. Part V: Kinds of Being
26. 18. Three Classical Views about Universals 177
27. 19. The Standard Approaches to Concrete Entities 194
28. 20. The Ontological Import of Mathematics 209
29. 21. Elements of Social Ontology 223
30. Relativism and Ontological Relativity 233
31. Bibliography 237
32. Index 249