The Metaphysics of Quantities
J. E. (Senior Lecturer in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Sciences, University of Edinburgh) Wolff
Oxford University Press, 2020
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book presents an original answer to this question through the novel position of substantival structuralism, arguing that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces.
- ISBN-13
- 9780198837084
- ISBN-10
- 0198837089
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2020
- Publication date
- 2020-05-28
- Pages
- 226
- Dimensions
- 240x163x19
- Weight
- 514