Nature and Necessity An Essay in Physical Ontology

Nature and Necessity: An Essay in Physical Ontology presents genuinely new solutions to some salient problems in metaphysics. Fisk provides a new argument, based on the notion of conditional probability, for the claim that induction presupposes necessary connections. After devising an ontology of ph...

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Main Author: Fisk, Milton (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Indiana University Press 1974
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